Reflection

by PatchWork Magic

Rating: mature
Tags: Discord, Gore, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Zecora, Romance, Original Character, Adventure, Tragedy
Length: 2950

Pixel and Cherry must find the shards of an old mirror if they ever want to go home. But what if they don't actually want to?

After being transported to some place they've never heard of, Cherry Toffee And Pixel Skipper must find the rest of the shards to a mirror if they ever want to go home. But after some thinking...What if they dont want to?
Pixel Skipper: Me
Cherry Toffee:An old friend of mine
Rust Bucket: Technically, no-one. Didn't have anything else in mind.
Snow Beauty: Eris H Discordia
Light Gear: Deadinlight....My annoying brother.
Star Beam: Shawn Walker
Shade Blitz:....ShadeBlitz

Published 2015-02-23 18:00:01 UTC
Last updated 2015-03-07 00:53:38 UTC

Chapter two- It has callen

PART ONE-CHAPTER 2: THE BEGINNING.

Re-cap time; Pixel Skipper and Cherry Toffee are sent to some weird place. but they are aren't together. Now Pixel is awake and see's there's some shadow form in the corner of her room. That thing didn't stop Pixel Skipper from yelling though. "WHERE IN THE NAME OF CELESTIA IS CHERRY?!"

The thing seemed to frown. "She's fine, if everything goes according to plan, she should be her shortly." It began to fade away.

"I want to see her. Now. Right bucking-" At that moment the steel door opened and Cherry walked in, followed by two other large stallions she had never seen before. Cherry looked fine but I could sense her fear. In fact, Pixel could smell it again.

The shadow was gone.

Jumping up, Pixel trotted over to her, tears welling up in my eyes.

Pixel half expected her to start crying and whimpering, but to her surprise, Cherry raised a hoof and pointed at Pixel's coat. "You're a mess."

Pixel smirked. Then without notice, the two stallions walked out, but held the door for someone else.

Someone she didn't expect.

Though she have only seen him in pictures, he was there... but more transparent.

Her great grandfather.

His transparent body was tainted with a light blue, but you could see every detail. From his cutie-mark to his beard.

At a young age, Pixel's great grandfather had been in the war. Which is where he got his cutie-mark. Two 9mm German pistols in a 'X' form with an olive tree in the back-round.
"Hello, my young one," the 'ghost' began, "I've have brought you here to help-"

Pixel cut him off.

"Great grand-dad?"

Sighing, he said "Yes, it is I, but as you can tell. Not real. Now then, shall we get on with it?"

Pixel nodded nodded.

"Good. I have brought you here to reunite the pieces of the mirror. You see, I died in a unknown manner, sometime after the war of Equestria. This mirror shard is the only thing to guide you to find its other pieces." He held out a transparent hoof and showed me the shard I hadn't noticed was missing.

"Anyway, reunite the pieces and my soul will be free. When you wish to find your next location say this simple chant 'Mirror, Mirror, the shards have callen, show us where the next has fallen.' Of course, it wont work for me though. Can't save myself. Too late for that." With that he put it in my hoof and his form began to fad.

"Wait!" Pixel's yelp startled Cherry.

"Yes?"

"Why should we help you?"

"You want to go home don't you?"

Pixel's fearful look made him smile, and she swears, she saw the shadow figure through his fading body, trotting past the door.

PART TWO-CHAPTER 2: FEAR RISING.(much shorter that Part-one)

I could sense Cherry's fear still as we both trotted out the exit of some kind of bunker. Two stallions at our side. When they got outside, the stallions left but not without giving us some supplies. Including; A map, 3 days worth of food, the shard (of course), and sleeping bags.

Left alone outside, Pixel took out the mirror shard from her saddle bag and took a glance at Cherry. Nodding with approval they both chanted it together.
"Mirror, Mirror, the shards have callen, show us where the next has fallen."

Author's Note

Holy hay-bails. Why am I doing this. ._____.

Chapter three- Just don't kick the bucket

For a few moments, the shard was still normal. Then the image changed from Pixel's reflection. In a rippling wave, they could spot out the makings of a broken-down shack, a lake in the back-round, and a small campfire on the inner shore.

"Um..Where do we go ?"Cherry said, looking up at the night sky.

With a sigh, Pixel levitated the map from her saddle bag and studied it.

"They said we're in Argentum, right? Well the map says the only lake in this place is north. I suppose water is taken from wells here."

"Oh, well I guess we should start walking then."

Pixel stared at her, once again dumbstruck.

"Cherry..."

"Yeah, Pixel?"

"I'm a unicorn-kirin."

And before you could say butterscotch, the two of them were on the other side of they lake, peering out of the bushes. Well... not Cherry. She was 4 feet away, throwing up behind a tree.

"What...The...Buck." though she was out of breath and still sick to her stomach, she still decided to argue with Pixel.

"Oh, calm down, Worry-Wort. I cast my magic with sulfer. It'll pass."

After throwing up one more time, Cherry joined Pixel by the bush. Looking over across the lake, They saw a small stallion, his light gray coat turning almost white in the fire light.
"His mane..." Cherry said. "It's beautiful."

Indeed it was, as a dark silver, it looked like stygion iron. Gleaming within the moonlight.

Pixel swore she could feel the heat radiating off of Cherry.

Deciding not to question it, Pixel took a step forward, out of the bushes. Though the stallion didn't notice, Pixel got a better look at his cutie mark from under his wings.
A rusty hammer was the main attraction, with a few also rusty screws and nails in the back-round.

Pixel was tired of all the long explanations and meetings so she whistled across the wide lake, still loud enough for the stallion to hear. Terrified by the sudden out burst, he jumped up and, to Both of the mare's surprise, drew a rusty iron dagger from under his wing. Cherry, seeming to know what she was going to do, yelled at her "Just don't kick him!"

Sighing, Pixel tramped into the water and began to swim across. When she reached the other side, the stallion was trembling. Pixel raised a hoof and slapped the dagger from his mouth. With a stubborn look she demand, "Swim. Now."

When they reached the bushes where Cherry was still hiding, Pixel forced the stallion to sit down.

"What's your name?" Pixel was tired of the long shit.

"R-Rust Bucket"

"Where's the shard?"

"Wait. What."

Sigh. Here we go again.

Pixel asked again.

"Where's the mirror shard."

This time she got a real answer.

"Oh, this dumb thing?" Rust Bucket pulled a shard out from under his wing.

Relief, fear, confusion, you name it, Pixel and Cherry felt it.

Snatching the shard from his mouth with a levitation spell, she placed it to the right side of her shard. A white glow engulfed the two peices, when it finally sub-sided, they were bonded together.

"What do I get for it?" Rust Bucket's voice broke the silence.

Scowling, Pixel turned her attention back to him.

"What do you want?"

"Well... You two are pretty cute... Maybe you could-?" He made joining motions with his hooves.

Cherry broke the awkward silence this time. "Buck. No."

"But you can come with us." Pixel chimed in.

Surprisingly, without knowing what was going on, Rust bucket came with them.

As they walked the trail that led away from the lake, Pixel couldn't help it anymore.

"Hey, Cherry?"

"Yeah?"

"Am I really not sexy enough for you?"

Author's Note

No. Im TOO sexy for her. o3o

Chapter four- A lavender surprise

After looking into the shard again, the three set off to find a open field in the middle of no-where.Though it didn't seem right, they went there anyway. But they walked, because Cherry refused to travel magically again.

After getting to the field, all of them were confused. For miles, nothing but grass and dirt stretched out. The sun was beginning to rise.

But then there was the lightning. With not a single cloud in sight.

From that atomic crash that sounded 3 feet behind them, a mighty burst of light gave way to three forms. Two familiar.

Discord. Ah, Pixel loves that crazy Draconequus.

And...

Zecora?

"Hello, Trespassers,

We have what your after."

Damn rhymes.

"What do you mean?" Cherry was the only one not surprised.

Discord snapped his claws, "Looking for this?" In his paw appeared to be the next shard.

"I found it on this pony." He tapped his foot on the ground and a small hole opened up, Discord reached in and pulled out normally sized light lavender unicorn mare.

She was covered in dirt and her (darker) lavender mane was a mess. Most likely from the ground opening into that hole
.
Pixel couldn't help but stare at her eyes. They were the same color as her mane, but they were.... enchanting.She couldn't help but jealous with her sea-wash green eyes.

She was struggling, trying to get out of Discord's grasp, yelling things like "I'll saw those bucking claws off and snap 'em myself if you don't put me down!"

Cherry broke into a smile, Rust was laughing.

"Oh hush down, young one. Let the elder's talk." Discord tapped his foot again and the hole filled with what looked like very deep water, and proceeded to hold the mare over it.

With a small whimper, the pony hushed up.

"Yes, yes, as the zebra stated, this mare had the shard- blah blah blah- we're watching you find the ponies- blah blah blah- got bored, decided to to help -blah blah blah-." He said all of this while his hand continued to go the barreling motions.

"Why should we believe you?" Rust was the first to speak up properly.

Zecora hesitated before saying,

"This mare has the shard,
But the game seemed much to hard."

Discord put the pony on solid ground and the mare sighed.

"Yeah, I had the shard, so what?"

Pixel stepped forward. "Your coming with us."

"I don't want to though!"

Discord whispered something into the mare's ear and she tensed.

"A-Alright. I'm coming."

Discord introduced everyone. "This is Snow Beauty."

"Snow Beauty, Pixel Skipper, Cherry Toffee, and Rust Bucket."

Snow Beauty finally opened up a bit.

"Nice to meet you all. Please, call my Snow."

Discord waited before saying "Zecora, don't you have something for them?"

The zebra jumped a bit.

"Oh, Yes.
This is the best."

She pulled out two strange orange potions. Pixel couldn't help to notice they were the same color as her own mane.

"These will guide you home.
But never drink one alone."

After taking the potions, there was another loud thunder-clap and Discord and Zecora disappeared.

Pixel spoke up, "Welcome to the herd, Snow."

Chapter five- Bob the Guardian is a butt

Though Snow was a little competitive, she and Rust got along greatly. Pixel supposed it was because they're both outsiders on this 'quest'. Cherry was the hopeless romantic of this group, so, of course, she thought that in the short time they we're together- "Love Bonds"- appeared.

They decided to stop by a village to get more supplies (with the new guest and all), so as of right now, our little ponies are in the Black-Gryphon inn, buy food, drinks, and because they we're almost out of bits, cleaning up.

They we're paid a total of 400 bits after cleaning the first floor and the basement. And so, resting their pain filled hooves, they sat in inn's tavern, talking to the weird as buck bar-handler.

"So, why are 4 ponies like you passing through a place like this?"

Pixel's ears perked up. "Like us?"

"Well, yea', you don't seem to be from this 'round 'ere. Ya know, the country an' all." He brushed some of his long green hair out of his face.

"We're....looking for mirror shards."

His eyes suddenly filled with fear. "M-may I see what you have?"

Though it seemed odd, Pixel didn't complain and told Cherry to get it of her saddle bag, which, she had ditched in the corner.

After coming back and setting the mirror piece (which was about as big as the stallion's hoof) on the bar top, the stallion tensed.

"Get out..." it was barely a whisper.

"What?"

"GET OUT! I refuse to dabble in world destroying!"
With that, they we're all kicked out.

Snow started beating on the door, yelling "This isn't over you two-hoofed clutz!" That's when he through all our supplies at us.

With a sigh, Cherry looked up into the night sky. "We should find the next-"

"No." Pixel countered her.

"What?"

"He said if we did this, it would destroy the world. I think we should find more information."

Cherry pulled something from her saddle bag. "This might help."

Snow looked at it intently. "And...?"

Rust asked what all we're thinking. "What is it?"

"Well, when I woke up yesterday, there was this weird little colt in my room that said if I needed help to blow into this horn. He said its from a sea-mare or something? I don't remember." She blew into the horn and instead of making a low kind of battle horn sound like you would expect, it made an ear-splitting screech that cause Rust to black out.

Pixel undid the sound block spell she put and her and Snow. "Wimp."

At that very moment, the ground started to shake under their hooves. A large crack opened and a young colt crawled out. He had a name tag on that read 'Hello, my name is: Bob the Guardian'.

Snow broke into a giggle and Cherry faced the young colt and said "Hello, again, Bob." Bob shook some dirt off his black pelt and Cherry brushed some worms from his messy, blue mane. "Hello, Cherry. You called?"

Was Pixel the only one who didn't like what was going on?

"Well, Bob, we wanted to know; What will happen if we reunite the shards?" Cherry's voice was calm and sweet.

"Well, her great grandfather's soul will be able go to what we here in Argentum call Blue-Moon, or the good after life. And you two," He motioned to Pixel and Cherry, "Will get to go home, back to Equestria."

"Oh... so the world won't be destroyed?"

Bob smiled.

"I never said that."

He began to sink back into his crack, ignoring the yells of anger and fear from all four of us. When the crack finally closed, Snow gave a sigh, "Let's do it anyway."

Pixel didn't refuse this time. "I want show that little twerp that this is the right thing to do."

Two hours later, they had just finished setting up camp and sat by the fire. For a while, everyone was silent. Maybe too silent.

Suddenly an arrow whipped past Rust's head and lodged itself into the tree trunk just above Snow's head, piercing through a bit of her mane; gulp.

After overcoming a large amount of shock, and checking the distant darkness for the archer with no luck

, Cherry stepped forward and pulled the arrow from the tree trunk. A small note was wrapped around the shaft of the arrow. Unfurling the parchment, Cherry read the three words out loud.

'Halt at once'

And that's when three ponies burst from the bushes.

Author's Note

Wow. Why did I make this chapter.

Chapter six- Scary Pixel? New coming Light Gear!

Something has gone wrong. We don't seem to have an archived copy of that chapter.

Chapter one- Let the adventure begin

"Oh, what in the world is this..?" Pixel Skipper held up a shard that reflected her image back to her. Until now she had only found bobble-heads, X-Equine comics, and old cooking magazines. She had been going through her great grandfather's old boxes within the basement when she found the shard. Confused by what it was doing in the box, she set it down next to gently, not want glass to scatter everywhere.

"What did you find?"

The voice startled her and she turn to she her slightly younger friend standing at the top of the stairs, looking down on her. Cherry Toffee was a strange one, her bright red mane and tail shimmering in the light of the bulb directly above Pixel.

Her reply was slow, but it got there,"comics, magazines, somethings I think are dolls, and a...mirror shard?". Though she didn't know why her reptilian tail began to swish back and forth; She never knew why. But it did.

Looking back to the boxes, Pixel heard Cherry trotting down the stairs.

"Pixel! Your coat it is a mess! How long have you been down here?"

"How long have you been in my house?"

Pixel could feel Cherry's cold glare on her back.

Levitating a brush she had also found within the boxes but didn't care to notice, she began to brush her coat. Only for Cherry to hoof-slap it out of her purple, magical grasp.
"I wanna do it." Cherry explained as she began to brush Pixel's coat, brush in mouth.

Sighing, Pixel gave in and picked up the shard. Looking at it made the ridges on her back and her scales shiver."Where do you think the other pieces are?" Cherry's voice broke her concentration.

"I don't know, but it gives me the wrong-Crap!" The shard slipped between her claws and fell to the floor, a deep scratch now visible on the surface.
"What did you-" Cherry's voice stopped and I could smell her fear.

The scratch, it was glowing.

The green rays radiating off the glass struck Pixel dumb-struck.

Reaching for the shard, Pixel held Cherry's hoof in pure panic. But as soon as claw tip touched with the shard, they both fell into darkness.

Awaking, Pixel nearly screamed. "Cherry?!"

Then she noticed the little...thing...in the corner of the pure white room.

"Hello, welcome to Argentum. Your adventure begins."

Author's Note

Looking for Oc's for future chapters. (Also sorry for being so short. will post next chapter very soon)