The Lord of Void

Sorry everyone who liked my story, however I have just lost all interest in continuing this story so I am hereby cancelling it here. I really feel I bit off more than I can chew and I just can't get back into writing for it.

I know myself and I will eternally bug me if I simply set it to Cancelled and leave it at that. So here is an overview of the plot of The Lord of Void from where I left off to the very end of the story.

The next chapter that would have been released would be the Wedding Invasion by the changelings. I was going to start the chapter off with Jack just outside the barrier and looking in, with a darkling saying that the bearers had just entered. I would then cut to the barrier breaking and Jack walking in. Jack would have casually strolled through Canterlot, killing changelings left and right as well as helping out some civilians and the guards who were being attacked. I would then cut to the throne room showing that the elements had just been captured and Chrysalis giving her victory monologue, in canon this is when Twilight would free Cadence and she would go to Shining, blah blah blah… Instead a changeling would interrupt her and tell her about the mysterious creature that was decimating her army. She would flip out and order the changeling to bring her its head. As the changeling rushed out I was going to have Jack walk in a second later saying something like ‘One head as requested’. Chrysalis and Jack would then fight. I intended to show that Jack was just wasting time, antagonizing the queen until the canon ending of the invasion happened. It would then cut to Jack back at the ruins looking at the stolen statue of Discord. It would cut again to Celestia jumping up and screaming ‘WHAT’ at Jack back in the interrogation room and running out. This is how the chapter would end.
The next chapter would start with Jack walking to a new room that had all the element bearers and both Celestia and Luna in it. They would ask about Discord and Jack would tell them about how they would deal with him if the next time he got free he decided he wanted some revenge instead of just playing around and giving them a small reason you suck speech, causing Celestia to have him continue his story. It would then cut to Jack teleporting to the frozen north and Twilight interrupting saying that such a long distance is impossible. Here is the excerpt that I had already written about this.

Ok, Ok… I can do this.

‘You’re ready? I never tried to do this at such a distance’

‘Yes Master, whenever you’re ready’

I gave a tug on the connection to that darkling and took a deep breath.

[Transversal]

Suddenly my vision was obscured by shadows. The next thing I notice is that I am now in a frozen tundra. The next-

“YOU WHAT!” Twilight shouted

“I said I used a spell to go from the ruins to the Frozen North.” I casually replied

“But… But… But… The amount of raw magic necessary… The calculations to teleport that distance… IT’S ASTRONOMICAL!”

“Twilight, please calm down” Celestia said soothingly

Twilight takes a few deep breaths before giving me a light glare.

“Explain” she downright orders

“Transversal and Teleportation spells,” I begin “while producing the same effect, have radically different methods of doing it. If I could borrow a piece of parchment I could give you a practical demonstration of how.”

Twilight immediately threw a blank piece of parchment to me. I also noticed the look of annoyance that flashed across both princesses faces.

“OK. Both Transversal and Teleportation are spells that are designed to allow for rapid movement between point A and point B” I begin while tapping a finger on either side of the parchment.

“Now Teleportation works by breaking down whatever is being moved at a molecular level and moving it from point A to point B at the speed of light, then reassemble to molecules back into the original thing. The farther the distance the more energy is needed.”

I noticed that I now only have the attention of three ponies, the rest seem to be daydreaming. This ranged from Dash who is staring at the ceiling, to Rarity who is looking at me, but is obviously checked out, to Pinkie who had fallen asleep with her head on the table and tongue hanging out.

Now that’s real talent

“Fun fact: Your method of teleportation actually kills any living thing, then brings it back to life after it reappears. It simply happens so fast that the organism simply doesn’t realize it should be dead.” I said with a smirk.

That got everyone’s attention, well except for Pinkie who snorted and rolled over… Onto the floor.

“My Transversal works differently. While it allow me to move from point A to point B it does so in a very different way.” I say holding up the parchment with a finger on both ends.

“Now where teleportation actually moves in a straight line, transversal actually warps space,” I say as I begin to fold the parchment so that the points are overlapping “so that I simply… slip through the fabric of space from point A to point B. With Transversal there is no limit in terms of distance, though it has its own set of limitations”

Twilight looked absolutely gobsmacked

“May I continue?” I ask before she could recompose and go full research mode on me.

“Please do.” Celestia says while eyeing Twilight warily

This will be a major plot point in the very last act.
After the interruption it would go back to Jack walking towards the Crystal Empire, saying that he had a darkling follow them in the train north and then used the darkling as a anchor point for the transversal. Jack would encounter three ponies as he reached the dome, it would quickly become apparent that these three were on Sombra’s side. There would be an Earth pony with the power of precognition, receiving a vision just before one of her friends was about to die. The next would be a unicorn who is the consort of blood and set up a kind of hive mind between the four to exploit the earth pony mare’s precognition. The final is another earth pony that has the power to change his coat into metal basically becoming immune to all physical and non mental magic.
It would end when Jack uses VoidTerror; this would also be the time where it is directly stated that VoidTerror does indeed make Jack a better fighter. He would realize that while the others have been fighting him the earth pony mare had been keeping her distance because her precognition would only work on others, she could not see anything about her own future/death. Jack would focus entirely on her and kill her. The other three would die soon after. I intended to end the chapter there.
The next chapter would be Jack fighting Sombra. I intended to the battle to reach it’s conclusion when Sombra traps twilight on the top of the tower. This is when Sombra and Jack would use their strongest attacks to finish the fight. It would become a beam battle a la Dragon Ball Z. Like the fight with chrysalis it was merely a distraction. Spike would get the heart to cadence, sans the wife throw. Sombra would ‘die’ just as he did before. Jack on the other hand would act like he was severely weakened by the blast and lets the guards capture him. Dash would interrupt at this point saying that it’s sounding like Jack allowed himself to be captured. Jack would use is void powers to make the manacles as brittle as glass and break them with ease. He would then recline on the chair and put his feet on the table and agree with Dash’s assessment. This is how the chapter would have ended.
The final chapter of Act 1 would be Jack telling them about the Black Rulers who would try to extinguish all life on the planet and while Jack could beat them himself, he would most likely be the only one left on the planet. I haven’t fully fleshed this part out yet but it would end with the Princesses deciding to put Jack in Twilight’s ‘custody’. Jack would also talk more about sburb, never being completely honest about it, and that they are all indeed involved, whether they want to be or not. I intended to have Jack explain their universe was a Void Session by talking like it was Super Paper Mario and Dark and Light Prognosticus. Basically it was the fate of the universe to be doomed and he would explain that he was using a vast amount of his power to ‘deny’ that fate.
The first intermission would show Sombra ‘waking up’ in the void and talking to the HorrorTerrors. They would give him a choice, and offer him a scepter to both survive and become far stronger than he could ever dream of being. Chrysalis would appear and urge him to accept. Sombra would make note of the draconic features in the Queen and notice the gold ring with nine white orbs. Basically Jack’s fight with both of them caused them to die, as we know from the comics Chrysalis survived her expulsion from Canterlot. In my universe Chrysalis died from it and the HorrorTerrors brought her back. This intermission was to tell the readers that Sombra is about to become the Black King and Chrysalis is the Black Queen and also that the HorrorTerrors may not be entirely on Jack’s side.
Oh here is the rundown of who is what class and their aspect.
● Jack – Lord of Void
● Celestia – Muse of Light
● Luna - Heir(ess) of Space
● Twilight - Mage of Hope
● Applejack - Witch of Life
● Pinkie Pie - Bard of Mind
● Rainbow Dash - Knight of Time
● Rarity - Seer of Heart
● Fluttershy - Rogue of Breath

Act 2 would begin with mostly slice of life things including Jack teaching the others on the finer points of what they need to know before deploying their machines and beginning the game in earnest. This is also when I would have started trying for crossovers with other Displaced. Pinkie would also never try to throw a party for Jack but would say she already did when asked, the ponies and Jack would just let it go and the readers wouldn’t know why until much later. Some of what I wrote about Jack teaching them about the game is like this;
“There are seven stats that you will all need to understand, I have come up with a great way to explain each stat and what they signify.”

I take out a tomato and show it to them
“Now, Strength is being able to crush a tomato. Dexterity is the speed at which you cut the tomato. Agility is being able to dodge a tomato. Endurance is being able to eat a bad tomato. Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put a tomato in a fruit salad. Finally, Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.”
Pinkie’s hand shot up into the air
“Yes Pinkie?” I ask, pointing to her
“Wouldn’t tomato based fruit salad be salsa?” she asked innocently
“And that Pinkie, is why you are the Bard” I respond
“Bard?” Twilight asks “That’s one of the Classes right?”
“Couldn’t have asked for a better segue, and yes it is.” I reply
This will then lead into talking about Classes and Aspects. Jack will also go into more detail about what he told Spike about the different paths of dragons which will be important to the plot in Act 4. He will also tell him that there are 9 paths total and each path has a Dragon Lord, the strongest of that specific path.
The over arching plot of Act 2 would begin when Jack is invited to the Grand Galloping Gala along with the other bearers. He would end up going as Luna’s date, things would really kick off when Blueblood makes an appearance, I was thinking of having him appear quite drunk and asking a bartending mare for another drink, very rudely and without giving a tip. He would backup and bump into Jack quite literally, spilling his drink over himself and blaming Jack and insulting him, saying things like him being an uglier diamond dog or a hairless monkey. Jack would do nothing as Blueblood rants and eventually leaves. Jack would simply say to Luna that he found his new ‘special friend’. Jack would then use the darklings to dig up dirt on Blueblood and eventually get him arrested. I was thinking of things like slavery, bribery, and those sorts of things. It would also kick off a complete covert war between Jack and the upper echelon of Canterlot who call themselves the ‘Brain Trust’ and would end with the Brain Trust staging a coup d’état. I would have made it apparent that they had been planning it for years but they were forced to do it early because Jack was simply beating them and they would need the full resources, or at least the ability to act overtly, to beat Jack. It would end with Celestia dissolving the entire noble system and installing a meritocracy instead of the legacy system that was previously in place. Act 2 would officially end when the girls finally drop their machines and begin prototyping. Each would bring two things to be prototyped, something to not allow the Black Rulers and the imps to not get very much more powerful, and another with sentimental value to prototype to make the sprite more helpful to them. Pinkie being the bard would throw in a ring of orbs as her first prototype, much to the other’s horror once Jack explains what Pinkie just did.

Act 3 would start with Discord revealing to them that the only way to get strong enough to beat the Black Rulers now was for all of them to reach God Tier, is to confront the denizen of the planet, who rests at the center of the planet. The princesses will tell them that the only way to the center of the planet is through Tartarus. But the only way in to Tartarus is to get past three trials; a maze, Cerberus, and a riddle to open the Gates of Tartarus (Sphinx riddle). The first half of Act 3 would be the seven of them going around getting what they need to enter Tartarus. For the maze they would need to go to the Minotaur capital Labyrinthia to get a guide to lead them through the maze. Go to the Diamond Dog territory to learn how to get past Cerberus. I planned to play this one for laughs, as Celestia is first explaining it to them Jack would sarcastically ask if a rolled up newspaper while pantomiming bopping it on the nose. The dogs will give them a giant rolled up newspaper and tell them to whack Cerberus on each of its snouts; first the left, then the right, then the middle. Finally they need to go to the land of the cats (I was thinking of calling them Felyne or something don’t remember if there is a canon name) to learn of the riddle and how to open the gates into Tartarus.
Once that is done they would return to gear up and prepare to make the trek into hell. Luna will decide to accompany them, telling them that Tartarus is broken up into 7 individual ‘Lands’ in addition to the core itself. These lands will be themed after the seven deadly sins and then would need to defeat the Demon Lord of each to gain access to the next land. They would be, in order;
Lust or the Land of Lechery and Bordellos ruled by Asmodeus. This is where the sex tag would really come into play. When they enter they will all become r63 versions of themselves.
Gluttony or the Land of Gluttony and Gourmet ruled by Belphegor. The land is filled delicious food and the demons have the ability to eat anything and also have enhanced senses.
Greed or the Land of Avarice and Treasure ruled by Mammon. Demons are coated in a metal or mineral that makes them almost impervious to certain types of magic and slashing damage. Rarity will stumble here and Pinkie will excel here with her use of hammers.
Sloth or the Land of Apathy and Potential ruled by Abadon. Are the strongest demons except for pride demons but are slow, apathetic or slow-witted. Sloth signifies a wasting of potential, and everyone will feel lethargic and apathetic.
Envy or the land of Thieves and Jealousy ruled by Leviathan. Not much happens in terms of battle at the start, demons were the changelings. This is where we will learn a lot about the changeling’s history and culture. First look at the chrysalids, the new prototyped changelings under Black Queen Chrysalis. They are basically the chrysalids from XCom.
Wrath or the Land of Anger and Blood ruled by Aamon. Demons are incredibly strong and fast, however they do not employ any kind of tactics and just charge head first. All demons see fighting as a free for all and will usually do more damage to kin then Jack and the others.
Pride or the Land of Vanity and Arrogance ruled by Lucifer. They are all a bunch of Shoggoths that are controlled by a group of Nyarlathotep that must be defeated before Lucifer will appear. Basically this place is completely out of Call of Cthulhu

Once they defeat Lucifer, they are teleported back to Celestia’s tea room with Celestia and Discord having tea together. I wanted the conversation to go like this;

Suddenly my vision goes white, by the time I blink the spots out of my eyes, I notice that we’re now in Celestia’s tea room. A tea room filled by a confused and surprised Celestia and a smug Discord who is daintily sipping from a tea cup.
“Discord, I swear on my power that if you are the Denizen, I will punch you in the face.” I said, my voice deathly calm

His shit eating grin told me everything I needed to know.
Jack would hit Discord in the jaw making a hole in the wall of the castle, Discord then has an old timey bag of ice tied around his head like a toothache type of thing, as he explains why he became a villain in the past. To make Celestia and Luna God-Tier (They were born too early and would have died of old age long before Twilight and the others were born, and without Luna as Space it would have made an unwinnable session(Despite it already being a Void Session)) and why Jack must achieve God Tier in order to defeat Sombra and that only Twilight can defeat Chrysalis (hints that she needs God Tier as well) Jack would interrupt saying that they already knew all of this, what they needed to know was how to actually achieve it. I was going to have something like either die on a quest bed or die with your last moments being an epiphany and use you’re dying will to ascend so long as you are at your peak (top rung on the echeladder).
Once they are all back from Tartarus, Luna will confess to Celestia that she wishes to abdicate the throne to her, making Celestia the sole ruler and take full control of the Shadow Corps, and helps her rule from the shadows.
Act 3 ends a week or two after they get back, Canterlot come under siege by the prototyped changelings, lead by Sombra and Chrysalis. Sombra and Chrysalis will kill both Twilight and Jack, allowing both to reach God Tier thanks to all the levels they gained going through Tartarus. Luna would use her powers to scatter the remaining element bearers as she did not know if they were ready to ascend yet and did not want to risk it.
The Intermission between Act 3 and 4 would be about how Celestia and Luna became God Tier and their fights with Discord and his creations.
Second Intermission is Jack and Discord talking privately. Telling the reader that there was an alternative reason for going to Tartarus. That being to capture Tirec for is magic stealing power. Also that Jack knew that Pinkie would prototype the ring of orbs because Discord made sure that the ring would stay in her family until it was given to her, before the elements were first used to petrify him.
Act 4 would really have four sub acts.
One for Jack and Twilight getting used to their powers
One for Applejack and Dash reaching God Tier. They basically land in Innsmouth and need to free the townspeople from the Dragon Lord of Death.
One for Rarity and Fluttershy reaching God Tier
I planned to write Pinkies God Tier ascension as Deus ex Pinkie. Jack will ask her how she became God Tier and Pinkie will act like she was always an alicorn.
One for the final battle between the nine of them and the Black Rulers. This is when Jack finally uses Tirec to drain the magic from Chrysalis and use it for his ultimate Fraymotif, Nihilism. This will wipe all of the enemy armies out of existence so only a memory of them remains. Leaving only the Jack, the Mane 6 and the Princesses against a weakened Chrysalis and full powered Sombra.
Act 4 ends with Jack touching the King’s Scepter and becoming a sysadmin of his branch of the multiverse. This would be the ultimate reward for the game session and when the sburb session would officially end.
As you can tell I did not think too much on the details for either of these at the time as I had a long while before I got to this Act.
Act 5 would be the final act and start some time after the end of Act 4. Maybe a few months to a year, I don’t know. It would have started with the princesses wondering where Jack had gone, he disappeared shortly after Sombra was defeated. Jack would appear and tell them that the Farthest Ring is eroding and we learn why the HorrorTerrors have been helping/hindering Jack. Basically an ancient evil was created many eons ago and Jack’s ascension to God Tiers caused it to gain a measure of sentience. The HorrorTerrors simply call it ‘The Primordial Void’. The Primordial Void is usually contained and imprisoned by the universes First Guardian. Discord would then appear with the others and tell them about when he played the game with three other draconequus’. He would tell of the mistake that they made in their session that resulted in a weaker but no longer imprisoned Primordial Void. He would also reveal that if the Primordial Void and Jack were to physically interact the Primordial Void would be able to regain its full power and travel the omniverse, destroying or corrupting everything. Discord would tell them that the only way to fix everything would be to once more imprison the Primordial Void once and for all. The only way to do that would be to harness the power generated during the birth of a new universe a dead session. That universe would serve as the jail of the Primordial Void. He will reveal that in order to create such a universe they need to create a Genesis ‘Seed’ that would bloom into this new universe. The Elements are what's needed to make the seed, meaning they must give them up. Most have a part to play in making this Genesis Seed;
Luna (Heiress of Space) - Needs to work with Twilight to create the Seed as space is tied into creation and such
Dash - Uses her power to go back in time so Applejack can plant the seed
Applejack - ‘Plants’ and makes the Seed bloom
Celestia & Jack - Combines their powers to create a zone that does not exist within Paradox Space allowing the new universe to be created in the zone they create and allowing it to exist within the current universe.
Once the Universe is created and the Primordial Void imprisoned, it would be revealed that Jack was gone. Discord will admit to having lied on Jack’s request and give them a letter written by Jack before they planted the seed. The letter would tell them that the Primordial Void and Jack were connected metaphysically and will able to traverse into any universe that Jack exists in. Jack will have in actuality used the power of the new universe to send the Primordial Void into the new session and the rest to perform and even greater Nihilism than in Act 4. Using it entirely on himself and wiping himself out of existence just as the Primordial Void is imprisoned in the new universe. Thereby not allowing the Primordial Void to ever be able to escape from the dead session.

And that Ladies and Gentlemen is how the Lord of Void ends.

A few things that I couldn’t really fit in that, but would have been talked about or would happen during Act 5.
Before Luna became Nightmare Moon she subconsciously gave up control of her elements to Celestia, this is why Celestia was able to use them all without Nightmare Moon’s/Luna’s consent. Celestia subconsciously gives them to Twilight and co. similar to how Luna did it (The elements were Celestia’s during the 1000 years of Luna’s banishment but she simply left them in the old castle because of the memories they brought, she never truly lost them, rather she couldn’t deal with the grief she felt when she so much as looked at them.)
Celestia knew Twilight and the others will be the next bearers for the elements thanks to her aspect and passively manipulated events so that all of the bearers would be in Ponyville for the Summer Sun Celebration.

Time Shenanigans:
While trying to see how far back Dash could go with others she would go as far back as when Jack first got to Equestria. This would cause them to create stable time loops. In the ‘It’s Halloween Already!’ chapter the ones on the roof at the end were future Jack and Dash. Dash used her power to slow Luna down enough that past Jack could survive the fight and future Jack used his powers to allow past Jack to escape.
When they return Jack has Twilight make a magical Virtual Intelligence, aka the setup wizard from the beginning. He also went back with both her and Pinkie to when Jack first entered Ponyville. Jack would stop Past Pinkie from going to the library and send Future Pinkie instead. Twilight would put an illusion on Pinkie to hide her wings and horn since she was not God Tier at the time. Future Pinkie uses her aspect to give past Jack all the information he would need to start as well as put the setup wizard into his interface, as well as make the elements do nothing to Jack. Past Pinkie would take this time to throw Jack a private welcome party with Future Twilight and this would explain why there was never a public party for Jack.
Finally Jack and Fluttershy would go back and Fluttershy would use her rouge of breath power to make Jack’s tier 1 prototyped sprite to leave for a while until it returned on Nightmare Night. They would then go forward to Nightmare Night where Fluttershy would use her powers again to make Umbra prototype himself with the sprite.