Voided Light

In a nondescript or otherwise special barn, sat an extremely out-of-place being against the huge volumes of hay. The towering construct of metal, ceramics, and untold alloys of dubious composition was constantly running scans over a tiny thing in it’s giant hand. Said tiny thing, was a dirty and tinted cola bottle with a star somehow contained within it. “Ever since the initial contact, the artifact has not otherwise responded to physical stimuli, nor has it done anything but repeat it’s message when prompted.”

This is Alex, freshly Displaced and I have only three words for you. Go. Fuck. Yourself.

“Are you sure it’s wise to keep a...star in a bottle just laying around?” Princess Sparkle asked of the giant robot that had taken up residence in her friend’s barn. “I mean, that’s basically the sun, on a comparatively microscopic level. We’re lucky Celestia hasn’t detected it.” The Princess said while fidgeting. “And are you feeling a little warm?”

“It’s merely a magical impulse Miss Sparkle. I have no libido to speak of, so while I may fantasize, I cannot act on any urges. So I do not feel anything. It was for the best that I decided to ignore my organic urges to maintain my sanity. EVEN IF I HAVE THE LIBERTY TO DO SO!” Liberty Prime suddenly intoned quite loudly, getting the main AI to shudder in anger at slipping yet again, and accidentally shook the bottle.

With the quick rapid shaking, the bottle suddenly popped it’s cap off, and starlight sprayed out from it like liquid light, foaming like champagne even, much to both Prime’s and Twilight’s shock, the liquid quickly formed a pool that from which, rose a girl dressed in what seemed to be a greek type of dress struggling with a small version of Discord as a girl.

“Get off! I’m not your mother, I am a guy for Zeus’s sake!” She yelled, apparently not noticing the two ridiculously noticeable people beside her. After a minute or two, she gave up and lay there panting as the creature curled up on her head.

“... Okay. Don’t really know what the hell just happened, but whatever.” Prime said. “I’m assuming you’re Alex?”

“This is astounding! She’s giving off thaumic signatures that are nearly a perfect match for the sun!” Princess Twilight Sparkle gushed as she rapidly hovered over the supine star-girl. “Signature matches, magic intensity is similar, the only thing keeping you from being a literal mobile sun is your size. And whatever’s causing your lunar magic too seems to help rein in the star-power.” The genius Arcanotech Engineer then poked her for a test, not seeming bothered by the instant burn of her hoof that she sniffed and licked. “Just like a real fire!”

“Another fucking horse!” Alex flinched and moved back only to see Liberty Prime. She looked up at his face, “And a giant robot. This day is just getting weirder.”

“Trust me. With my luck, you’ll suddenly go supernova, blow up the entire nearby population, and it’ll get pinned on me. BY THE COMMUNISTS!” Prime complained. “Also, if you’re a living star, you’d probably best leave soon. Sunbutt will probably sense you and come looking.”

“Or, considering her lunar signature, Lu-.” Twilight started, only to be interrupted by a flash of cerulean light.

“We sense a meteorite fall! Art thou injured?!” Princess Luna teleported in suddenly, looking around frantically for a dangerous moonfall impact.

“OH FOR THE LOVE OF ZEUS MORE HORSES! WHAT DID I DO?” Alex yelled curling back. She attempted to hide but failed, being as big as Luna.

“A Nova-Child! Quickly Twilight, we must cast a warding spell to stop our sister from sensing her!” Luna’s and Twilight’s horns lit up, and flashed, casting a weak aura over the living star-girl. “There, now she is unlikely to notice it wherever she is. We would stay, but we fear sister is suspicious. We shall only correspond via Spike, farewell.” Luna then teleported away.

“What the hell was that? And what the hell is a Nova-Child?” Alex looked around wildly.

“Well, not a clue what they’re talking about. Just makes me think of Starbound.” Prime said casually. “Ah, the Novakid. Such a fun race. Makes me wish I still had a computer to play that game.”

“Wait, are you talking about Skybreakers? The Nova-Child is a race for that game!” Twilight gushed as she again got in Alex’s face, making her scoot back. “You’re a Nova-Child?! You’re my favorite race in Skybreakers!”

Alex flinched backwards, “No. I’m human, whatever was done to me was done by a goddess from the Void, and I’m a guy.”

“Ouch...gender-bent. Feel sorry for you. At least being a robot is androgynous as can be, aside from my MASCULINE DEMOCRATIC COLORATION!”

“Oh~, if you’re behaving like this, then you must have just gone through an illegal gender modification. You have my condolences, we can’t fix that without the source of the spell to reverse engineer.” Twilight apologized. “If anything though, I can vouch for how great being female is. First, there’s the-.” Twilight pulled up a mare anatomy chart and a pointer and was pointing to the groin when Alex stood up and began raging slightly.

“I really don’t care. I was male and my sister was the female. Until I figure out how to be male again, I am going to ignore comments like that. Got any suggestions on that?” Alex glared at Twilight.

“I’m afraid not. Compared to Nova-Child magic we’d still be way behind whatever your people can do. And like I said, without the original caster present, I can’t reverse the spell without the source cast available. If I tried to make you male, you’d turn into a pony, or some other species I have no control over, considering I don’t know what you looked like before.” Twilight answered apologetically. “The best I can do is help you adjust, really.”

“Ugh. It’s probably that chick’s fault,” Alex frowned, apparently thinking of something important. “If only I knew her name…”

“Well, whatever you’re thinking, could you please leave this building? It is made of wood, and houses incredibly flammable hay that you’re already catching alight.” Prime informed, getting Alex to look down at her feet, seeing the hay around her was already blackened and smoking, and the fringes around her were starting to smolder unlike the instantly burned-out stuff she touched directly.

“Lovely. I wonder…” Alex scrunched her eyebrows a bit. As her face began to redden she lifted off the ground. “Cool!” The whole effect of her floating, her eyes glowing for some reason, and overall beauty gave her a look not unlike a goddess.

“Amazing. It’s just like the game describes. Heavenly powers align with the children of the stars.” Twilight gawked in awe. “I must show you our people! C’mon!” Twilight suddenly grabbed the unprepared girl out of the air, making her squeak in surprise as the mare dragged her through the air and outside. “This is Sweet Apple Acres! Home of-!” The barn door slammed, leaving Prime alone for a moment.

“...I need to monitor this situation...ugh...can’t believe I have to use the Sentry Bot again so soon.”

Alex wasn’t sure how to feel besides confused, worried, and nervous. Considering she was being paraded through the air like a high-speed parade float just a few feet off the ground and all the colorful tiny horses were gaping at her. Not to mention the odd fusion of rustic suburbia being mixed together with high-tech living such as the floating three-armed robots going around and performing miscellaneous tasks upon request.

“This place is weird...but cool at the same time?” Alex asked herself as she scratched her head at how unusual this place was. Tiny magical horses, that had wings and could fly, others had horns and could do magic stuff like the purple one that also had wings that wouldn’t stop talking for one second about the town, and then there were normal ones that seemed beefier and tougher in general. “I have the powerful urge to grab one and hug them...if I wouldn’t burn them alive anyway….”

“And this is my home!” Twilight instated, and the finality of her tone snapped Alex out of her fugue, and she blinked before gawking up at the ridiculously gigantic crystal tree castle/palace/fortress thing that seemed extremely out of place to her considering the rest of the modern suburban town she’d just been given a quick tour of.

“Well, that’s...different,” Alex muttered.

“You think that’s weird. Hah!” Prime said. “I’ve seen weirder shit wandering around. This place is a wasteland outside of the cities.”

“Why is that?” Alex looked at the hulking three-wheeled robot that rolled up next to her.

“This world is built upon the foundations of evils best left forgotten. Sunbutt knows it all too well, and she foolishly uses them to her advantage. You would think she’d have learned better.” Prime’s voice from the bulky robot informed. It had two folding/extending arms that seemed to be for grabbing large and heavy objects like a mobile multi-positional forklift of sorts with clamps.

“I’m getting a bad feeling about her. Why do you call her Sunbutt anyways? I don’t know anyone like that, even though I’d been back in the other world just long enough to see two blue horses, both with wings and horns,” Alex said, putting a finger to her mouth, nibbling on it a bit.

“Prime hates Celestia because she’s been nothing but cruel to him at every turn. Sure, he killed a whole town, but he was malfunctioning, it wasn’t his fault.” Twilight explained as she opened the front doors of her castle, a gong ringing out as she did so. “Ah~...I love that so much.”

“Think that’s bad?” Alex asked, “Back at my Earth, a whole group of Displaced destroyed the governments and ruled for around two years before that crazy cat lady took them out.”

“Displaced? Sounds like a horrible name for a biker gang.” Prime commented as he rolled in after them. His portable Loader Sentry chassis was still quite suspicious, since his model wasn’t on the public market. Twilight thankfully vouched him as one of her personal projects, so he could only get away with being out and about around her.

“Yeah well-,” Alex was interrupted by a woman’s voice speaking into their minds.

Sorry I can’t be there personally at the moment but since you both have little idea of what Displaced are, I’ll explain. Displaced are humans, or otherwise, who have been sent to a new universe by a Void-Dweller or sometimes other entities. Alex, you were Displaced by me, Prime, you were Displaced by The Merchant, the bloody arse. Anyways, I’m off!

The voice faded off rather quickly leaving the three rather stunned.

“Well...this explains a lot about you two.” Twilight shrugged off, trotting further into her home as Alex and Prime looked at each other before following her rapidly.

“WHY are you treating this so casually?! I just found out I’ve been turned into the monsters that destroyed my world!” Alex inflamed as she shouted, her hair becoming almost wild and ridiculously voluminous as cat-like features popped up in her anger, including a long tail with a poofy tip.

“And I just found out why I’ve been made to suffer for 900 years!” Prime roared, his claws spinning as he roared and flailed about.

And so, the chaos began.