Nothing Can Stop, The Smooze!
Witch Queen Lilith was no more, thwarted by that blasted alien Megan, and the twice-cursed Rainbow of Light and left not even a corpse to be revived.
The Witches had retreated to Mount Gloom. They were surrounded by those sickeningly good ponies, their allies, and the traitorous GOOD wizards of the land. From all accounts, it looked like the Witch Family's number was up. Thousands upon thousands of years from before recorded history even began about to be winked out. Many of their number had already been taken out, and even Master Vile's believed to be safe haven for evil had been liberated.
Hydia was busy recording everything she knew about black magic into tomes along with countless cursed charms including a cursed book that would grant the user untold power plus liberating them of all the icky good things like morality and inhibitions. Hydia also said anyone who said they didn't remember what they did after using it was a liar.
Hydia was having countless crows scatter them over the land. Along with many DECOY cursed magic items to add to the confusion and provide a smokescreen. It would lend to the myth thousands of years later that all curses were just psychology and smoke and mirrors. After all, the greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing the world he didn't exist.
What remained of their army of monsters and goblin canon fodder wouldn't last long and what members of their family remained had their own problems to deal with.
But today would be the day Reeka finally made her mother Hydia proud.
"HYDIA! COME QUICK!"
"WHAT IS IT YOU WORTHLESS IDIOT!? I'M BUSY!"
"I'm gonna make the Smooze!"
"!...We don't have the ingredients left for that you fool, and Flutterponies right on top of us!"
"I've made a NEW Smooze!"
"Oh? And they're going to beg to have Classic Smooze back once they find out how wonderful it is? Do something useful!"
"It is useful!" The pudgy witch insisted to her mother. Reeka was standing over a cauldron she had barely used before. But being stuck inside Mount Gloom she had time for little else but actually read how the concoction worked. Hydia appreciated the irony that all it took was for one of her spawn to actually learn how to do use dark magic properly was the betrayal of one and the complete annihilation of their family!
Outside, dark clouds gathered above Mount Gloom as green lightning struck, the earth rumbled, the wind picked up, and the ponies wondered what the witches were up to.
A twisting storm of magic shoot out from the Cauldron like a pillar, poking a hole in the ceiling. There was an explosion that knocked the witches off their feet because why not?
"Just like Grandpa made the Blue Smooze, and you made the Purple Smooze!" Reeka said getting up, making extra sure to dust herself up to look as presentable as possible. "I give you, the Green Smooze!"
Reeka reached in, and turned to her mother.
Hydia wondered what she was talking about until her daughter opened her hand to reveal a round little blob of green slime.
"Reeka that's anti-gravity slime you nimrod!" Hydia kicked her.
The green slime, without eyes, looked around innocently, and smiled without a face.
"It's invincible mom!"
"DON'T CALL ME MOM!"
The green Smooze latched onto her face.
"GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!"
"Oh it likes you!"
"GET IT OFF!"
Reeka pulled off her creation.
"THAT! Has to be! The most worthless and pathetic incarnation of the Smooze in the history of our family! At least your great-great-auntie's Cube Smooze was bad for cleaning dungeons!"
"Wait till you see it in action Hydia! You'll love it!"
"I'M A WITCH STUPID! I don't love anything!"
"I mean you won't hate it!"
"That's better. But it's still as big a failure as you!"
"At least I didn't turn on you like Draggle!"
"Don't mention that name!"
"Yes, Hydia! But let me just show you what it can do!"
"...Fine! I could use a bad laugh! If nothing else it should buy me a few minutes to make a few more black magic artifacts!"
-
Holding a white flag, Reeka called out with a megaphone.
"Ponyland! Surrender! Or be destroy by the unstoppable invincible unbeatable Smooze!"
Queen Rose Dust lowered her eyelids as she fluttered above the mouth of Mount Gloom along with the rest of her swarm of Flutterponies. Was she REALLY threatening FLUTTERPONIES with the Smooze? In the long history of Hydia's family, no version of that nasty brew had ever been able to withstand the Utterflutter, it was as if being vulnerable to it was written into it's genes. "The threat of the Smooze is past witch. Surrender and you will be treated humanely."
"Alright! You asked for it! Get'em Green Smooze!"
The green Smooze nodded at its creator and hopped out of her palm and began bouncing towards the gathered armies and heroes.
Ponies braced themselves for the coming flood of purple smile or the blue slime monster, or a tentacled pink slime, but...nothing? Finally Megan took out some binoculars and spotted the tiny Smooze and sharing it with her pony friends.
"A green slime monster?" Ribbon said taking a turn. "How generic."
"Don't be too hard on her. She tried her worst," Draggle said.
General Firefly and Gusty couldn't stop from snorting at the sight of the pathetic little ball of slime.
And the little green Smooze continued to slime forward undiscouraged.
"Do we HAVE TO wipe it out?" Morning Glory asked her queen. "I mean, it's so small and helpless."
Honeysuckle rolled her eyes. "Morning Glory, not now please."
Queen Rosedust signed. "Make it quick and painless my Flutterponies. It's still large enough to infect some ponies. Switch to Utter Flutter!"
Megan thought about it. "WAIT! They KNOW you can wipe the Smooze! Why are they just sending out one that can't win?"
"A distraction?" Danny asked, suddenly on guard for much something worse.
"Maybe they WANT the Flutterponies to use Utter Flutter on it?" Molly asked suddenly scared.
"Maybe they're just buying time," Spike suggested.
"GET'EM!" Reeka snapped.
The Green Smooze actually slithered out of the way the massive Utter Flutter, the Flutter Ponies weren't used to such a small target.
Then...it leapt right onto the wizard Mothert's staff, EATING the jewel on the top. Sir Alonzo instantly cut the thing in two, which instantly pulled itself back together and took a bite out of the edge of his sword.
All Hades broke loose a moment later. The Smooze bounced around, attacking every mage in turn, eating every spell jewel or crystal nearby, growing bigger as it went, sloshing about. Ponies and their friends scattered to avoid it, having dealt with the Smooze one too many time to stand around gawking.
The Smooze tried to eat the Moochick's staff, but he managed to distract it feeding it his pocket watch instead. The Moochick made to turn the green Smooze to a moss. The spell...simply went THROUGH it.
The combined force of the Earth ponies, Crunch, the Crab Nasties, and Stone Backs, managed to corner it, desperate to do so while it was still small enough to corral.
The Flutterponies didn't need to be told, they hit the creature with Utter Flutter, dead center. The Green Smooze shuddered, and splattered under the power of Utter Flutter...then PULLED ITSELF BACK TOGETHER?
Everyone stared in blind, silent shock, including Hydia...until laughter broke the silence.
"This Smooze is Utter Flutter Resistant!" Reeka laughed.
"THAT'S CHEATING!" Lickety Split II shouted.
"One more try!" Queen Rosedust shouted, pouring it on as the Smooze reached for them, but under the power of Utter Flutter, this time the Smooze scattered...hitting several ponies.
"OH! It got me!" Sundance said covered in green slime. "Wind Whistler! I've always been jealous of your friendship with Megan!"
"At least I know it is the Smooze speaking those hurtful words." The logical pony said calmly.
"We're doomed." A slimily Shady said.
"I AM NOT getting stuck in some amateur-hour horseapples as being the tough pony beaten so the new guy can be shown how tough they are!" General Firefly snorted and cursed wildly trying to break free of the Green Smooze covering her wings.
"I wish! I wish! I wish!" Twilight shouted, trying to turn the Smooze before her into sparkles, or the ground underneath it, but instead her horn just bubbled.
Applejack covered her slimely head, her hooves felt like led, and the life forces around her feeling muted. "Oh no! Now I'm gonna be a total grump! Hit me with the utterfllutter fast! Or I'll say something bad to Firefly, and she's a fun pony even if she crashes into me sometimes, I know nopony's perfect and I make mistakes a lot too so-"
"Are you okay?" Slugger asked Buttons, having shielded her from the slime.
"Yes dear, but I could have just teleported out of the way remember?" Button said none of the Smooze on her.
"Oh, right, sorry." Slugger apologized, covered in slime. "Uh, Aren't I supposed to be feel nasty now honey?"
Reeka snorted. Laughing. "You ponies! This Smooze doesn't block all that nasty goodness, that's HOW I made it immune to Utterflutter!"
Sundance blushed. "Oh. Sorry Wind Whistler."
"Apologize accepted."
"HOW?!" Megan shouted. "How'd you make the Smooze immune to Utter Flutter Reeka?"
"Like I'm gonna tell you!" Reeka snapped. "But good luck using any kind of magic ever with it on you!"
Even Draggle couldn't stop herself from being impressed by her sister. "... Reeka did it, she's become the Witch of Witches, even Great Gran Granny Queen Lilith never managed to make the Smooze resist to the Flutterponies."
"Reeka." The elder witch said, finally breaking out of her stupor.
"Yes Hydia?"
"You can call me mom."
Reeka was stunned silent for a moment. "Yes mom."
"I want you to know, dear, I no longer despise you."
"Wow, really?"
"Yeah, now I furiously envy you instead!"
Reeka sniffed. "Thanks, mom!"
Before the ponies' eyes, the Smooze simply reformed, this time faster than before.
"GIVE UP! The Green Smooze is invincible!"
"Ahgg! Time to play!" Hydia shouted, and her ever loyal giant cyclops spider rose out of the mouth of Mount Gloom, and Hydria rode on top of the beast.
The Smooze grinned at the assembled heroes like a kit-eating tree.
Wind Whister, Whizzer, and North Star, carried the three siblings away from the madness. The Smooze wrought havoc, immobilizing everything in its path.
"NOTHING CAN STOP!... THE SMOOOOOZE!" Reeka did a little dance.
Things were total chaos. Megan lost track of who was doing what, and coordination broke down among 'Prince Scorpan' and his men and their elfen allies. The Flutterponies had been given the job of putting down the Smooze if it was used, while the others dealing with what remained of the witches other forces. And Reeka's new Smooze didn't fit the normal behaviors of its predecessor. Moving with intent and direction rather than trying to steamroll everything in its path.
Even the ice magic of the penguins only stopped it once, before it shattered and was now immune to it. In fact it just ATE UP the shiny ice that had incased it and grew even larger.
And it kept eating any jewel, crystal, or intense source of magic nearby.
"ThismaysoundcrazybutIsayeveryoneflytoflyanotherday!" Whizzer said, carrying Molly (Megan had trusted Whizzer's speed for that).
"No," Megan said. "They want us to run. We run, they build up their defenses, rebuild their monster army, the scattered witches gather, and they can just inside Mountain Gloom for however long it takes them to start this war again. AND they'll have that Smooze with them."
"We need time to analyze this new form of Smooze, Megan. To continue blindly when our current tactics are ineffectual would be foolish." Wind Whistler said.
Megan sighed. "Alright. Everyone! Withdraw back to Dream Valley! Those who can move, carry those who can't! No one gets left behind!"
General Firefly repeated the order. Prince 'Scorpan' did the same. Prince Philippe, Captain Crabnasty, and the other officers did so as well. Queen Rosedust sighed, feeling nothing but shame at her swarm not being able to fulfill the one duty she felt nature itself had given them.
The witches laughed as the heroes showed their backsides.
"We won!" Reeka laughed. "Good work Smoozy!"
The green Smooze smiled at the praise and approval of its creator.
"You fool! Go after them! Don't give them a chance to breath!" Hydia snapped. "Besides, now they're on the run, this is the best part! This is for my father, you little brats!"
"Forward Smoozy!"
The Smooze grinned, laughing to itself. The Smooze slithered downwards, covering all in its path.
"Something bad is chasing you - have you heard the news?
Get inside, it's new and improved - nothing can stop this Smooze!" Hydia sang.
"You can't stop him!" called Reeka.
"Run away as it moves forth - you can't beat this ooze!
Here it comes!"
"Right now!"
"Nothing can stop this Smooze!
You can't escape it, you can't escape it, you haven't got a chance!"
"This evil goo is MY brand new brew!" Reeka sung proudly.
"Let my words ring true! Here's our revenge on you!" Hydia sung, giving a sadistic smirk.
"No matter what you do, we're gonna get to you!
Today it is ponykind that's guaranteed to lose!"
"You can't win!"
"You outta pack it in!"
"Nothing can stop this Smooze!"
The Green Smooze was tireless. At the Moochick's suggestion, they began dumping jewels, enchanted objects, and other treasures in its path, which it stopped to devour. Button's own magic proved very useful in that regard, turning tiny pebbles and rocks into semi-precious stones. The Smooze stopping to eat every time.
"WHY ARE WE HELPING IT GET BIGGER AND STRONGER?!" Captain Crabnasty exclaimed.
"This isn't a battle we're going to win by overpowering it," said the Moochick. "I've seen every variety of Smooze ever created from Lilith's Smoss to Hydia's Purple Smooze, but none of their weaknesses are working on this one."
"On the bright side, we've lured them out of Mount Gloom," 4-Speed said, the big brother ponies carrying the lion share of those depowered by the Smooze sans Slugger who was covered in the weakening slime.
"If you call this 'lured'," Said Danny.
"At least they won't have any tricks to pull out of there, and we can make some tricks of our own," Surprise gave her dear friend a nuzzle.
"Anyone have any ideas, now's the time to share 'em!" Truly shouted.
"The Utter Flutter can't destroy it, but it can slow it down!" Said Forget-Me-Not. "We've gotta try!"
"That's only a good idea if you have something you're delaying for!" Said Honeysuckle.
"You're saying we should give up!?" Forget-Me-Not shouted back.
"THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID AT ALL!"
"Do not bicker my little flutterponies!" Queen Rosedust said.
"We will come up with a plan," Megan said, keeping up her 'fearless leader' face that her ponies depended on more than once. "First! Get the Smooze slime off those affected! You said it yourselves! Utter Flutter can't stop it, but you can still help!"
The Flutterponies did as suggested, cleaning away the gunk and restoring the ponies to their full selves...sort of...they were still drained, but no longer blocked.
"Can't you make some kind of GOOD Smooze to fight your sister's?" Gusty asked Draggle.
"I could try, but the Smooze is our family's most complicated recipe," Draggle explained. "I might be good at light magic now, but even with the Moochick's help it'd take me weeks to figure it out and I don't think we've got that!"
"And all this time." Shady said. "I thought the witches had finally run out of new dirty tricks to make sure we couldn't win. Their ghost queen. The blue Smooze. The tornados. Opening the portal to that monster's world. I wish we could just make the Smooze go away."
"...SHADY YOU'RE A GENIUS!" Megan exclaimed.
"Huh?!"
"Magic Star! Wind Whistler! Twilight! Moochick! Galaxy! Glory! Mothert! Queen Rosedust! I have an idea!"
-
The Green Smooze followed the retreating heroes like ants do a trail of sugar. Hydia and Reeka didn't care where they were running. Because that's all they were doing, running. They were just delaying the inevitable at this point. And they left a trail of slime in their wake.
The now giant mass of green witch's brew giggled and grunted in delight.
The seaponies manages to give the green Smooze a few minutes of trouble before it flooded their rivers that crossed its path and were forced to retreat.
-
"This is the spot?" Magic Star asked.
"I'm sure of it." Galaxy said.
"I can assure you it is," Mothert nodded his bearded head. "I still have the bruises."
"Queen Rosedust! Now you flutterponies DO have something to delay for!" Megan said.
"We shall do our best!"
-
The Flutterponies took formation between the Smooze and where the rest of the heroes were waiting.
"BWAHAHAHAH! Please don't give up!" Hydia laughed. "Squirm and wiggle to the end!"
"We shall honor your request Hydia!" Queen Rosedust said. "Flutterponies! Switch to Utter Flutter! And don't stop even if your wings fall off!"
Her loving and loyal children didn't hesitate to obey their queen. With grim determination, they faced against their natural enemy.
-
"No!" Magic Star said, "You don't just reverse the polarity. At best it won't work, at worse it'll blow up in your face, at WORST it'll burn out your own magic!" She said to Surprise at the pegasus' suggestion.
"Okay...whatever happens, don't break the spell circle or...it'll get really messy really fast. Or that's what Hydia said." Draggle added, her inside knowledge of the attempt being invaluable.
"Five more degrees to your right." Galaxy said, her eyes closed and her horn glowing. Then moving five feet, and closing her eyes and her horn glowing again. "Four change it to eleven o'clock." She said to former Baby Ponies unicorns as they worked as quickly as they could reworking the complex engraving on the mesa.
The baby ponies drawing in the lines, while the Bushwhoolies worked to dig them in behind them with help from the Stonebacks.
"I wish, I wish, I wish." Twilight was saying over and over, her horn with a low glow. Mimic doing the same on the opposite end of the circle having copied Twilight's wish magic. Moon Dancer and Glory on opposite sides of the circle like points on a compass.
Gusty using her magic to KEEP AWAY any wind that might disrupt their work, and Fizzy making a giant bubble for extra protection.
The ponies working as quick, AND CAREFULLY as they could.
"There are no second chances for this, and should something go wrong, we'll have been better off with the Smooze." Said the Moochick.
-
Morning Glory fainted, Sting catching her like he had the last five Flutterponies who had fainted from exhausting keeping the Green Smooze away.
Hydia laughed, counting down how many Flutterponies were left in the sky as they dropped one by one.
"Just ain't no way to stop"
"MY gooey, gooey glop! Ooh!" Reeka sung with pride.
"When it comes to witches brews, Smooze is what we choose!
We won't stop - nothing else can top our unstoppable Smooze!
Smoze! Nothing can stop! The Smooze!"
-
All Six Princess Ponies stood in a larger circle surrounding the that Mimic, Twilight, Moon Dancer, and Glory surrounded, their wands glowing so bright and so intensely that they felt it burning their mouths. But this was everything...Ponyland was THEIR KINGDOM, or it was SUPPOSED TO BE...maybe it was time they started acting like leaders of their herds instead of relying on outsiders to do it for them. This was for everything.
-
Paradise read through the passage again. Something 'borrowed' from a witch's house. "Okay, I've got it translated, word for word."
"It has to be syllable for syllable dear!" The Moochick said, he and Draggle combining their light magic to keep protective wards up just in case something happened.
"That too!" Paradise insisted. "...If I go crazy from reading this...don't let me ruin any of my story books."
"Don't say that!" Truly said. "We're all making out of it okay!"
-
"Forget-Me-Not! Honey Suckle!"
"We're still with your...your majesty! We...we won't stop." Forget-Me-Not said, her wings feeling like iron.
"Three to go." Hydia laughed. The green Smooze began to surround the mesa. The Smooze couldn't wait for the pain-bug-horses to all drop dead and he could get back to eating.
-
"Megan. I have now double checked every line, angle, connection, rune, and degree of-!"
"Triple check it!" Magic Star said.
"We're out of time!" Molly said. "The Flutterponies aren't going to last that long!"
"If we mess up it would have been better if the witches won!" Magic Star said.
-
"How does it feel Rosedust? To know the moment you stop, is the moment the history of ponies stop?" Hydia said. "And you're all going to go back to being the stupid beasts nature intended you as before an accident gave you smarts that were never yours?"
"I LOVE IT when you talk like that mom!" Reeka cackled as only a true witch can.
"Oh Reeka, you've even got the witch laugh down! You truly are a worthy witch!"
The Smooze nodded. It was a witch's brew, it would fulfill its role.
Forget-Me-Not thought maybe being a dumb beast wouldn't be so bad if she could take a rest. She shook her head! No! She had to last as long as she could! Honeysuckle pushed up on her, to help her stay in the air a bit longer.
-
"We can't wait any longer!" Heart Throb said.
Magic Star and Wind Whistler ignored her as they worked tirelessly. Okay. Actually very tired.
Magic Star considered, for the second time that minute to risk using the Alicorn Amulet, it would destroy the Smooze as a triviality...Maybe it would be simpler, be easier. Magic Star could certainly control herself that long right? Shady had gotten her out of it once before right? It certainly had to be safer and saner than this. Yes...the Amulet, just the Amulet . . .
"Magic Star! Your eyes! They are discolored!" Wind Whistler whisper.
Magic Star looked in a mirror provided, snapping back to her senses, seeing the red light within fade, and shuddered. 'I'll never be completely free of it. What did Megan call it? An addiction? I'm going to have to deal with this for the rest of my days.'
-
They saw Spike shoot up a plume of flame. The signal.
"Flutterponies! Retreat!" Her two Flutterponies fell to the earth...she herself practically crash landed on the mesa, carried away by the Furbars.
-
Baby Lickety Split and Megan held the Rainbow of Light together.
"Please...grant us this miracle," Megan whispered.
-
The Smooze closed in.
"THIS IS THE END!" Hydia shouted.
-
"Sundance, I love all of you, you're all my friends," Megan replied, hugging. "If this doesn't work, let's not leave the world thinking otherwise, okay?"
The mare was startled, but returned the hug. "...Thank you Megan."
"Lickety Split," Lickety Split Senior said to her filly, hugging her, "I just want you to know, you've made me upset many times, but I have ALWAYS been proud of you!"
"Thank you mom," The two ponies hugged.
And then they were back to their stations as the spell began.
"Discord Rocks! I smell like socks!" Paradise read, hopping on one hoof. On top of a jar filled with rainbow dye colored apple sauce (provided by AJ and Twinkle). Wearing rabbit wears. "Chaos rules. Order drools. I'm loyal to my three best friends first and last: My, Myself, And I. Laugh at others. Give to yourself. The truth is misleading. Kindness is a weakness. Never say yes to the world. The rules are made to be broken. Lulu has a very nice plot, but Sunny's is nicer. Across the void between states of existence, I speak what is not to be spoken. I open what should not be open. Our descendants will all be nudists. The Keyword is: Chaos Is Magic."
The giant rune glowed...the same incomplete rune the witches had been working on to summon the spirit of destruction to their world...now it was reworked to SEND something to another plane of reality.
The Rainbow of Light swirled around it like a tornado, the Moochick, Draggle, and several mages having to do their hardest to keep it JUST out of reach of the portal to prevent it from causing an explosion from opposites touching.
Screams were heard. No pony saw what was on the other side of the portal. All they heard was random nonsense. And sweet whispers promising cotton candy and chocolate milk and no bed times.
The tornado of the rainbow of light rose up as the green Smooze closed in, then sucked the green witch's brew down, down into the hole.
"DON'T GIVE UP Smooze!" Reeka shouted.
And it obeyed its beloved creator to the best of its ability. Against the second most powerful combined magic the ponies had ever seen...the green smooze resisted the black hole like force. It held onto the sides, and began to push itself back up out of the hole. It pulled every last drop of itself scattered over miles into one place to put all its might into resisting the pull.
No one spotted them, or noticed them, no one ever did. But they saw what was happening, and knew what was at stake. For the good of everything, there must be sacrifices.
The Bushwhoolies did the unthinkable...they began to tickle the green Smooze.
And the ponies and their friends heard the Smooze laugh.
Hydia would have strangled her daughter if she wasn't caught up in seeing defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
Ahgg meanwhile, felt pity and kinship towards the green Smooze. The Smooze slipped into the portal. The bush whoolies one by one broke away as it was pulled in.
Nopony could move from their positions least the portal ripped a hole in reality.
The purple Bushwhoolie, Wishful, however...held on, and continued to tickle it, until both had fallen into the portal. In a flash of Rainbow Light, the portal was closed, and Wishful and the green Smooze, were both gone from the world.
"SMOOZY!" Reeka cried out in despair. "YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS PONIES!!!!"
-
What happened next, while important to the world, was simply what had to be done for the ponies. They kept on Reeka and Hydia heels as the witches made a fighting retreat to Mount Gloom in order to make use of their remaining spell books and dark magic charms there. They ended things in a final showdown now that their final trump card was gone and Reeka had no ingredients left to make it again. The witches refused to surrender, and they fell in battle.
Ahgg fell protecting his mistress, toppled into the lava of Mount Gloom after losing a long struggle with Crunch, the ever devoted giant spider's loyalty and will to protect his mistress somehow managing to protect him from Crunch's petrifaction till the very end.
Hydia fell when the Moochick gained the upper hand, but Megan used the Locket containing the Rainbow of Light to deflect an instant death curse back at her in the Moochick's defense, evil magic so black that Hydia knew she was forfeiting her witch's longevity just using it (Megan was believed dead for several moments from merely being so close to it).
Reeka went down fighting against the strongest and fastest and powerful of the ponies and their allies, releasing spells of black magic she'd never been able to cast before, trying to avenge her creation. Mimic, Galaxy, and the Moochick, all being hard pressed even when it was now an entire army against one.
Reeka called on every bit of hate and rage her family carried, forming it together into big black center of dark magic that would give Queen Lilith pause. Asking no none for permission, and hesitating for only a moment, Princess Tiffany used herself as a distraction against the witch . . . in the next moment, the war was won.
The pegasus princess was bed bound in a coma for days, but lived. She would turn ill on the anniversary of that battle for the rest of her days. She and her five sisters had much to do.
The six Princess Ponies would spend the rest of their days laying the foundations of the Age of Wonders. Princess Sparkle, the only unicorn of the six, and the last of them, would die of old age just as it cracked its dawn.
While Draggle had little love for her mother...she still needed comfort from Megan and her Master the Moochick seeing their fall.
The ponies had no way to open the portal and let Wishful out without letting, things the Moochick said must NEVER be let into the world. So instead they merely made a statue in his honor.
The Bushwhoolie Wishful had made the ultimate sacrifice to save all of Ponykind. The greatest sacrifice made imaginable...and...and history moved on, he'd be barely remembered if at all.
As Judicium blew the trumpet on the age of Lilith's clan, Pensilis added another memorial to his endless hall.
-
The Realm of Chaos...was not meant for mortal beings...only the very brave and the determined (like mail ponies) had any chance of getting in and out with their sanity and forms intact...
And as it was ...the random magics of the realm of Discord, or rather, the very presence of Discord itself, did not obey such trivial rules like 1+1=2...The portal had been meant to carry one, their spirits twisted and fused...and what came out...was a small green blob, innocent and oblivious to its strange surroundings, not once desiring to cover them in muck for the sake of it, feeling confused.
"MY MY MY WHAT WE HAVE HERE?" Discord's face appeared on every surface around the green blob that looked at Discord without fear, simply innocent curiosity like that of a newborn. This surprised the then youthful Concept of Chaos itself. "Hmmm...you're interesting...sometoy was knocking on my door and gave the club password...was it you? ...Care to stay here and have some fun?"
The Smooze thought that sounded interesting, and nodded.
Author's Note
Epilogue By Ardashir:
Hydia: "Rotten ponies! I'll see you in Hel --" BOOM!
And the first thing she sees is Mortis. Who probably carts her off to Judicium and whoever else among the Alicorns sits in judgement on the dead. (Or more likely, waits to see if they'll hang themselves or not.)
Judicium: "Now to see just what sort of a life you lead here. Ah the account of your bad deeds..." *Scroll drops down off the desk before Judicium, hits the floor, unrolls out the door, and probably ends up in some other alicorn's personal realm.* "... This may take a while."
