Rip of the Rift
Portaling in
Previous ChapterNext ChapterCandy Burn sighed as she and her sisters walked home.
"That was an interesting challenge," she said.
"Yeah," Floriba said. "Who knew that they could be so tiring?" The mares they were talking about were the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They had asked Floriba, Candy Burn, Twill Weave and Taissy to help them find ponies with cutie mark problems, and the day had finally ended.
"You," Twill Weave said. "Technically, you're Applebloom's cousin." Floriba nodded.
"Yeah, good point," she said. She stifled a yawn. "But still, they can be quite the hoofful." They were almost at the door of the Crystal Castle when a portal opened underneath them. They screamed before it closed, like it had never been there.
"Pinkie!" Fallout exclaimed as he walked into Pumpkin and Pound's room. "Mrs. Cake wants....Pound.......what are you doing?" Pinkie was wearing a small (and probably tight) yellow top and tight looking blue pants and was sweating like crazy. She was currently resting and had probably just finished doing something to entertain Pound.
"I'm multitasking silly!" Pinkie exclaimed.
"How?" Fallout asked.
"Well I'm doing my morning workout and foalsitting, of course! Besides, look at him, he's enjoying it!" Pinkie said. Fallout looked at Pound, who looked as confused as he was.
"I don't think he's enjoying it, I think he's just trying to figure out what the hell you're doing in front of him. Look at his face he's so confused," Fallout said.
"Well....uh.... he was laughing earlier!" Pinkie said.
"Were you making silly faces again in front of him?" Fallout asked with a light grin.
"......yes......wait why are you up here did you need something?" Pinkie asked.
"Yeah, two things. One, Mrs. Cake said it's time to feed Pound and two Rainbow Dash is waiting downstairs for you she's going on about another good idea for a prank," Fallout said.
"Sweet I love pranking with her," Pinkie said.
"I know you do. Now could you please go down there and take her she keeps looking at me and licking her lips," Fallout said. Pinkie laughed.
"Yeah, just me let finish," she said. She started doing jumping jacks, making her generously sized breasts bounce around.
"And get you at least 20 towels," Fallout commented.
"Could you please?" Pinkie asked. Fallout smiled.
"I can't say no to that face," he said. As he left the nursery to get said towels, a portal appeared underneath him, swallowing him up and closing up before he could cry out.
Fractured Heart stood at attention. Her current employer, a scrawny nerdy looking colt, was in a press conference, talking about the effects and ability range that something he had just made had: transferable genetics. She hadn't payed much attention to what the machine was able to do, but she did know that it had the intresting ability to take hold of a certain gene within a ponies genetic structure, and hold it within staisis for some kind of future use. Of course, she doubted some of the abilities that the conference people were talking about, but the machine was still useful, she was sure. As the conference ended and the colt started walking towards her, she tilted her head just a little bit. She was sure that she had heard something. A few seconds later an arrow came whizzing down towards the colts head, and would have gone straight though it, if Fractured Heart hadn't been able to swat it away. There were some screams. She looked up, judged the angle of the way the arrow came in, and looked toward the second to the top floor of a building to see a crossbow retreating back into a window. She glanced around at the security guards.
"You guys saw where it was too?" she asked. One of them nodded. "Well, you should go get somepony who has better qualifications to deal with this." She felt somepony tapping her shoulder. She turned her head to see the colt.
"You saved my life!" he said. He even sounded extremely nerdy. "How can I repay you?" Fractured Heart was about to reply when a gold and green portal appeared beneath her, sucked her in, and vanished without a trace.
Hidden Darkness shivered as he trekked to his mountain top home. It was covered with snow, and was a part of an abandoned ski resort. Of course it also doubled as a lab, with the lab going deep within the bowels of the mountain. He had moved there, and had lived there for the past few years, creating genetic anomalies, and had advanced beyond genetics. He had finally started with programming and machinery, with the most advanced machine he had being a tie between his Brain Mapping machines and his portal technology. Of course, he missed (and frequently thought of) his previous genetic anomalies, and friends. But one had betrayed the rest, and Hidden Darkness had been able to escape to here. And there were the other strange anomalies that happened around the resort. Gravity fluctuations, strange things appearing, odd smells, and the occasional gateway portal. Today they seemed to be acting up much more then usual. He had seen several different portals appearing and disappearing randomly, until a green and gold one opened up underneath him.
Scorched Apple and Rainbow Dash were enjoying another date together as the sun sank below the horizon. Scorched Apple had found a spot in Everfree Forest that was surprisingly empty of animals. It had a clear view of the horizon and wasn't to far from Ponyville.
"It's beautiful," Rainbow Dash said.
"Not as beautiful as you," Scorched said, making Rainbow blush lightly.
"That's so cheesy," she said. "So how did you find this anyway?"
"Fluttershy asked for my help getting some herbs for medicine, and we stumbled across this little hidden gem," Scorched said. "I was hoping you would like it." Rainbow Dash smiled and nodded.
"Of course," she said. They started leaning in to kiss each other, but then a green and gold portal appeared under Scorched, and disappeared.
In a small hut in the Everfree Forest, a mare named Windy was hiding from the storm raging on outside. She turned and looked at Zecora, the owner of the hut.
"So, you live here?" Windy asked. "Permanently?" Zecora nodded.
"Yes, I'm aware it is odd, but it is much better then being out getting clawed," Zecora said.
"Do you always speak in rhymes?" Windy asked.
"Why, yes, I do, young bugaboo," Zecora said. "I hope you don't mind me saying, but your aura is now....neighing."
"What?" Windy asked. Zecora didn't get a chance to say anything, because a gold and green portal opened up underneath Windy, sucked her in, and closed before she could scream.
Toxigo Paralysis nervously walked down the halls of the Canterlot Castle, his left prosthetic forhoof clinking every time it set down. His eyes wandered the halls, looking for possible things he could...borrow....without Celestia or Luna knowing. Then again, maybe not. After all, he trusted them, and he didn't trust many ponies. He sniffed the air. Something was different. Some powerful magic was at work. Some really powerful magic. Toxigo Paralysis learned just how powerful as a gold and green portal opened underneath him.
Flash Truth entered the temple and gasped. It was so old, and vine covered! He grinned.
If it's this old, and looks like this, then there must be something good in here! he thought. He descended the stairs and looked around. There was nothing. He sniffed the air, and felt for a breeze. He looked towards the right.
Hmm, he thought. There's a slight breeze from over there. He walked over and felt the wall he was sure the breeze cam from.
This crack shouldn't be here, he thought. He grabbed a hoofful of gunpowder, filled most of the crack with it, and used the rest of it to give him some time to get away from the blast. He grabbed a match, flicked it against a nearby stone a few times, and when it finally lit, he dropped it on the gunpowder and hurried away, and got behind a rock. When the blast exploded, he looked at the wall. Or rather, what had been a wall. It was now a pile of ruble, reveling a statuette, with a small ray of sun shining on it.
Wow, must be really magical and powerful, he thought. As soon as he grabbed it, a gold and green portal appeared underneath him.
Twilight and her friends, including her human ones, were testing on the mirror portal.
"Are you sure this is safe?" Sci-Twi asked. Princess Twilight shrugged.
"I don't know, but let's find out!" she said. "Sunset Shimmer, can you hand me that staff right there?" Sunset Shimmer grabbed a staff with her magic and handed it to Princess Twilight.
"Twilight, you better not get us killed," Sunset Shimmer said.
"I won't," Princess Twilight said. As she touched the staff to the mirror, a gold and green portal appeared beneath them, sucked them in, and closed. Naturally.
Author's Note
Here is Fractured Heart, , Scorched Apple,
, and Fallout,
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Also, that Fallout paragraph was this conversation in this blog post.
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/750757/the-opposite-of-yesterday
