Dreamer Adventures

Chara was standing inside of a void, unable to see anything in any direction, seeing as everything in every direction was black.

“Hello is anybody here?” Chara said with a trembling voice.

“So you want to be me, do you?” Chara heard from a ways behind her causing her to turn around and see… herself!? The only difference was that her white cornea were black and had a glowing red iris.

“Are you the original Chara?” displaced Chara asked as she took a step back.

“Yes and now you are going to experience my past since you want to be me so badly,” Original said, Displaced knocked back a step after Original rushed forward and planted her hand on Chara's head. Everything changed around her, she was then forced to witness herself being raped, beaten, and verbally abused constantly until she woke up the next morning tears running down her face.

She got up and made her way to her friend, crawling into bed next to Shade. She started hugging herself close, not daring to go back to sleep. Shade yawned, sitting up. She rubbed her eyes as she looked for the cause of the shift in her bed, seeing Chara in her covers shivering.

“Chara, what's wrong?” She asked groggily.

“T-t-the original ch-chara m-m-made me relive her memories, f-forcing me to live through countless t-times of being b-b-beaten, y-y-yelled at and ra-ra-raaaaaped!” Chara cried out if she latched into Shade, crying into her chest. Shade rubbed Charas back to comfort her, letting her weep, letting her speak out her mind. Chara before displacement had always prided herself on being a virgin still, now she was in the body of someone who had that innocence stolen and her hatred for rapists grew by leaps and bounds… along with her hatred for child abusers. She had never felt this kind of hatred before, it was worse than the hatred she had for her original family. Chara remembered all the times her mother had told her that she hated her, that she didn't care, even the few times she told her that she wished Chara had never been born.

“P-please... promise me... you'll never leave me alone in this world…” Chara whispered, clinging to her one and only friend in this world.

If only she knew. Shade thought before holding Chara close throughout the whole time. Shade could see that Charas determination nearly broke from the ordeal.

“I… I can't do this alone…” Young Chara mumbled.

Deep in an underground cave we see a collection of stallions, changelings, and griffin's sitting around a table. Some held a stoic and emotionless gazes, while others had been foaming at the mouth so to speak.

“We were promised a weapon! Why were we lied to!?” A grease colored griffin shouted at the ponies, slamming a curled claw upon the table.

“There were complications in obtaining the subject.” A racoon styled pony stated, slowly sipping a bit of wine.

The changelings in the room began to flood the area with an incessant buzzing until one began to speak. “A complication occurs when a surgeon cuts an artery during a triple bypass. A complication is a drug deal gone wrong because of a pair of loose lips. This was no complication, this was by design.”

“Design!?” Another Griffon yelled. “In what way did we want that our weapon be denied us?” All eyes turned to the conglomerate of ponies in the room.

“It was a simple test, and now that we know just how valuable this commodity is,” A gray coated stallion placed a packet of files upon the table for the others to see. “Our prices have since increased.”

The Changelings tossed several bags of gold and gems upon the table as another among them began reviewing the new information.

The room was once again filled with a cacophony of buzzing, stopping as the Changeling reading the documents passed it along to the slimy black griffin.

“This is an outrage! You promised us the weapon and by your goddess we shall have it!” The griffins left the room, no longer wishing to aid the ponies in something they should have done themselves.

“What we don't understand is why the weapon is a child… wouldn't an adult fair much better?” one of the changeling say as they look at the picture of said weapon.

More buzzing echoed as the Racoon finished his wine. “Does it matter? Someone deal with the bird. We wouldn't want our efforts gone to waste,” The green eyes of the changelings grew bright as a pained yell echoed from the halls.

“Feather brained nuisance,” The Racoon spat as he was served more wine.

“So is this child really as powerful as you say she is…?” One of the changelings asked as she eyed the paper with skepticism.

A blue visor was tossed along the table, a recording playing off of it for all the room to see. “The weapon is real, and it is far more valuable than any can imagine.” From molecular regeneration, to destructive magic, the child surprised all with how volatile its power was. Soon the changelings were offering up a lot more money for the child as the greedy money-grubbing ponies smiled maliciously.

An explosion rocked the training grounds of the castle. “AGAIN!” A voice shouted as energy was focused into a single point.

“FIRE!” Another explosion echoed forth, Asriel Dreemur groaning in frustration.

“SHINGLE ROOFED FROG LICKER!! Why can’t I get these fraggled skulls to work!!?” The child yelled to the heavens. “AND WHY THE FRUIT HASN’T ANYONE FIXED MY VOCAL PROBLEM!?” He slammed his head into the tiled floor, cracking the cement.

Celestia was standing nearby for support and to keep damage control in check but stood not to close incase the training gets a little overboard. “You're just feeling stress. Though I don't know what you mean by vocal problem? You sound fine to me.”

He lifts his head up, his eyes a swirling and chaotic haze. “Well I am not fine!” He shouts while raising his arms into the air. “My one source of stress relief is now gone! Because I can’t even say a simple H-E double hockey sticks! I have to resort to calling it H-E DOUBLE GRUMBLE GROG HOCKEY STICKS!! WHY!? WHAT DIVINE BEING DID I ANGER TO DESERVE THIS!!?” He began to comically and cartoonishly cry literal rivers onto the ground.

He materializes a rather soft cloth and begins dabbing at his eyes, sniffling every three seconds. “Sorry… I’m good now.” He picked himself up and huffs before shaking his head and materializing another goat skull.

“You are doing well young Asriel! soon you will be able to battle Chara!” Luna said excitedly.

Asriel took a breath and instead began to coax energy into the skull steadily. “Hokay… can’t let this one blow up too…” A sufficient amount was finally charged as he aimed to the sky. “FIRE!” A magnificent ray of rainbow colored energy ripped through the air, decimating several clouds that had come into contact with the beam. Celestia felt bad that she had to pull a child from another timeline to help beat the problems caused of another child.

“I… I did it? It didn’t blow up?” The flinching child feared opening his eyes.

“It’s okay little Asriel, it didn’t backfire.” Celestia said as she nudged him gently with her muzzle.

He relaxed his clinched eyes, gasping happily, seeing the fog from his exhausted cannon. “I did it… I DID IT! AHAHA Ohhhh… oh I have never been so happy before!” He turned around and hugged Celestia the way he never hugged another living being before.

Asriel pulled back in shock and embarrassment as he began to dust his shirt. “Hm, yeah… Just uh, that much closer to standing toe to toe with a… with a demigod…”

“Chara is a demigod!?” Celestial yells out in shock.

“Did I say that out loud?” Asriel asked in dazed confusion. “I mean, you know… demigod is such a subjective term. Meta human might be more on the mark...eh heh heh…” he began twiddling his thumbs.

“Oh… that's a relief. Still, do you know what her powers are? We only got that she has the powers over ‘determination’.” Celestia asked as she had looked through the legend of Chara and she could not find what the powers were.

“Human determination is a frightening thing,” Asriel started with an alarmingly cold glare. “It’s the mental and spiritual fortitude to tell a mountain to move, not because it wants to, but because it needs to.”

Ethereal images began to manifest into the world, images of a single human weathering the tide of an army far larger and far more equipped than he, breaking the tide of battle with nothing but a thought. Images of a child breathing life into a new world, of a scholar toppling a golem with words…

The images blinked from existence as Asriel regained his usual demeanor. “… What were we talking about?”

Luna and Celestia were shivering at the power that they believed Chara had.

“Something tells me no matter how well prepared I am… Chara might be ten steps ahead of me,” Asriel admits, focusing energy into his palms as he creates a thin white blade half his size. “But that just means I need to try harder.”

“Do you think we can get Chara to use her powers for good?” Celestia asks to Asriel with a hopeful expression.

Asriel tilts the blade, mystical energy forcing it to take the form of a shield. “I hope so…” The “shield” cracks and breaks, turning into rainbow colored dust. “Because if we can’t, then it’s the end of the world as we know it.”

“Is Chara really so strong she could cause the end of the world!?” Luna exclaimed in fright, after all they were talking about a child.

Asriel began to rub his tired hands as he looked at Luna. “If she wanted to, she could dig into the core of the planet right now and cause it to burst,” He focused another sword into existence, this time shifting it’s hilt to have a guard. “Poof, end of the world ” He accentuated this with a childish wave of his arms.

“Is there any way to stop her should she not want to help us?” Celestia asked with a pleading tone, not wanting the end of the world.

He began to ponder this ponder of ponders, pacing back and forth as he drew lines in the ground with his sword. “You could...freeze her,” he shot out a finger as a wall was covered in ice. “Toss her into the Sun,” Said Sun flared for a quick second, a bit of shrubbery having been singed. “Ooh, or you could force her power against her!” He then pointed at the sisters rather joyfully as the two reeled back and shielded themselves… only for nothing to happen.

“No, that would never work.” He whispered as he went back to pacing.

“Would the Elements of Harmony work on her?” Luna asked as she gave her sister I pointed look.

“Elements of who now?” Asriel asked with curiosity.

“The Elements of Harmony are something that my student and her friends use that have the power to trap a Chaos God…” Celestia explains.

“That sounds like it’ll only work if Chara is unbalanced in some way…” Asriel sat down on the ground, his blade turning into a scale. “Though, nothing tells us any different. Humans are naturally an even force though, good weighed equally with bad.” His scales began to tip every so often before settling into equilibrium. “Hit her when she doesn’t see it coming, and do it with the will to restore balance, it might just get her on your side.”

“So you believe she may be out of balance?” Luna asks as she tries to understand Asriel.

“Believe who’s out of balance?” The scale disappeared into rainbow dust, a confused look upon Asriel’s face. “How long have I been down here?” The child asked.

“Chara! The one we have summoned you here to fight!” Luna says starting to get irritated with his absent-mindedness.

He snapped his fingers, a joyful look on his face. “Oh right! The world breaker! Yeah, that might not end well.”

“Are you okay Asriel?” Celestia said as she looked at him in concern.

His eyes go wide for a split second before he begins to smile and dismissively wave. “What me? I’m right as rain!” A small rumble echoed from his gut. “Though I may be lacking in proper dietary fiber. Can I use your kitchen?” both Celestia and Luna were concerned about Asriel as they watched him walk to the kitchen.

Suddenly, a guard burst into the room “Princess the creature has been spotted!” the guard said urgently.

{earlier with Chara}

Chara had decided to go out and get some chocolate to help cheer herself up. She had made sure not to be spotted by any visor people as she made her way to the chocolate shop.

Chara used her 20 bits to buy as much chocolate as she could, which turned out to be quite a lot as she had a big bag of chocolate in her hand almost her own size. She wasn't as cautious this time around as she was more concerned on stuffing her face with chocolate so she didn't notice when a visor Pegasus flew above her spotting her quickly.

“Target sighted! Do not engage! Repeat DO NOT ENGA-” Chara immediately hit him with a rock to the head with all of her strength pouring into her determination, into it causing a dent to appear on his helmet and shattering the visor pieces of it ripping into his eyes but not killing him. the Scout fell to the ground screaming in agony as Chara winced. Chara decided to scram, taking off still holding her bag of candy.

“Follow that chocolate!” An over enthusiastic soldier exclaimed, stars in her eyes and saliva dripping from her mouth. The chase was once again on.

Chara had been on the run for over 30 minutes. Through this time she had critically wounded several different ponies, from slicing off their wings to slicing off their horns and legs.

“Leave me alone you fucking bastards!” Chara yelled as she continued to run sending up blades of determination at the pursuers to try and get them to go away.

Though, as the chase was reaching it’s fever pitch, a soft hand had appeared from a dark alleyway and had pulled Chara in. Chara unceremoniously fell atop her captor and lost a decent mass of her chocolate.

A translucent film appears over the alleyway entrance, shielding it from prying eyes. Chara turned around to glare at the one who made her drop her chocolate only to find a rather shaky Asriel huddled on the ground.

“Uhhh…….” The goat child gave Chara an awkward stare as he lifted his hand up. His index and middle fingers together and parted from his pinkie and ring fingers. “Live long and… prosper?”

“The hell are you doing here Azzy?” Chara asks as she shivers a little at the touch, her mind flashing back to what she experienced last night.

“I’m uh… I’m not too sure.” He picked himself up and started to dust off his clothing. “Pie?” He happily offered a single slice of still piping hot cinnamon and butterscotch pie.

Chara grab the cinnamon butterscotch pie and started eating on it although she kept her ‘brother’ in her line of sight constantly as she could almost immediately tell something was wrong with him.

“So ‘brother’ what's up with the barrier?” Chara ask that she eyes the guards on the other side of the barrier, her back to one of the walls.

“Privacy mostly, it kinda looked you were having some trouble there,” Asriel pointed out with a smile. “Maybe you can fill me in on why you’re public enemy number one?”

“Well the ponies are racist and I may have stolen a bunch of cherries met Soarin and he said he would fix that and then I was attacked by guards as soon as I got off the train and then I ran and they kept chasing me then I found a place to hide and then when I came out I was assaulted by the guards after they saw through my disguise so I defended myself and I didn't want to kill and then I hid again then I came out because I got a bunch of bad memories ‘restored’ and then I started getting chased again I didn't mean to hurt the visor Pegasus I just instinctively threw something at him and I just wanted chocolate!” Chara says as she tries to get everything she wanted to say out, rambling a bit. Just a bit.

Asriel could only stare blankly, several thoughts seemed to go through his mind as he tried so desperately to figure out how to proceed. “Okay… bad day gone worse. Need help?”

“I just wanted to take my chocolate back to my Hideout and then those assholes decided to ruin my day!” Chara says as she glares at the guards.

“Okay, I can help with that… I hope.” Asriel began to charge a wad of magic into his hand, a ripple forming along the fabric of reality. “Take my hand, and think of home,” he said as he offered his free hand. The guards were now banging on the ethereal wall. Chara cautiously grabbed his hand and started thinking of her big bed in the circus tent in the hidden passageways.

Finally tossing the blob at a wall, a shortcut had appeared to Chara’s destination. “Let’s go, that wall is killing me,” Asriel said with a wince, a loud thud echoing off the wall. Chara stuck her tongue out at the guards before jumping into the shortcut.

Chara appears out of a portal above her bed and lands softly on it, the bed was a lot more comfortable than the one she had before displacement… even if she had to live in a circus tent underground to have it.

Unceremoniously, Asriel had fallen flat on his face on the ground just next to Chara’s bed. He pulled back, stretching his face out and freeing himself with a pop. “Sweet fluffle that stings… ” The child whined as he rubbed his sore face.

At that moment Chara realized something, she hadn't heard Asriel actually curse one time and when he tried it always sounded something like that. “You can't curse can you ‘brother’?” Chara asked with a smirk. Charas smirk fell immediately after she saw a gun leveled point blank right behind Asriel's head.

“D-don't shoot!” Chara yells out for her friend to not pull the trigger. “He helped me get away from a huge Mob of guards that I may or may not have mutilated in my attempt to escape.”

Asriel kept a calm demeanor, his hands raised and his body still, though in his mind his thoughts were racing as he cursed himself for his current situation. “I like living, I like living. I like the concept of living,” He chanted as a mantra.

“Name intruder!?” Shade growled in a commanding voice, still keeping her gun right at him.

Calm and stoic, the child answered. “Asriel Dreemurr, I come with pie.” In his mind he cried. “They’re going to kill me! They are going to kill me and I am going to die!”

“His name is Goat bro!” Chara says trying to lighten the mood. “And I'd really appreciate it if he wasn't turned to dust!” Chara had always found the cleanup for monster is much more efficient than humans… you just needed a Hoover.

“I’m talking Chara! Don’t interrupt!” Shade shouted out, not letting her eyes off the goat child. “Why are you here? What’s your occupation?”

“He’s a kid dumbass!” Chara said getting really upset at her friends over paranoia.

“I said stop interrupting me! It’s between me and him.” She growled, pushing the bud of the gun up to his head.

“I’m here to keep Chara safe, I’m a cook, and a darn good one,” The goat child responded. He felt the barrel move away and few footsteps going to his left before standing beside Chara.

“Well now that we're not ready to blow anyone's heads off can we all sit down and enjoy and nice big bag of chocolate!” Chara said with her tone slightly quivering after pulling her big bag of chocolate from her inventory.

“Chocolate sounds nice…” Asriel finally let his emotions catch up with his body as he slumped onto the floor, a white mist hovering just outside his mouth. As this is happening Chara is feeling guilty about pulling Asriel into such a situation.

“I'm sorry azzy…” Chara whispers as she moves next to Asriel petting his head.

The mist fled back into his mouth as he regained his composure. “Huh? Oh! Hey, no big deal. I’ve seen worse,” He pulled out the remainder of his pie, still warm. “Pie?”

“Pie!” Chara quickly grabbed the pie and started nomming on it. Before long, the entire pastry was gone. Leaving behind a wide eyed and awestruck Asriel.

“Someone kept their appetite…” He whispered. “So, short dark and gruesome. Got a name?” He asked of his would be assassin.

The cloaked being looked away. “Shade, Pla Shade.” She simply said in her usual masculine tone.

“Pla?” Asriel asked with tilted head. “Interesting name. So, whatta ya do when you aren’t holding someone at gunpoint?” Asriel asked with genuine curiosity.

“Oh that's just how he makes friends…” Chara says before she goes back to eating her pie and chocolate.

Asriel held a look of worry and confusion, his eyes a chaotic swirling vortex. “You make friends over coffee, over a card game, over quite literally EVERY OTHER SCHNOZZ FILLED ACTIVITY that doesn’t end up with someone almost dying!” He yelled, throwing his arms up to accentuate his point.

“Well that's how he made friends with me…” Chara said with a shrug of her shoulders.

Shade snorted. “That's not true and you know it. Pointing guns at one another isn’t one of them.” She said.

“You kidnapped me to be friends with me because you were lonely…” Chara pointed out remembering their visit on the train.

“Yet I said I needed company not friends. Your the one who said that I’m your friend. So ha.” Shade smugly replied.

Asriel watched their banter, a smile on his face and his chin on his hands. “Huh, it’s nice to see you making friends Chara, brings a tear to my eye,” Asriel said, smiling.

“ I believe it's called Stockholm Syndrome…” Chara says with a deadpan not pulling any punches.

“Pfft, like you couldn’t leave whenever you wanted,” Asriel teased. He looked back to shade, slight worry in his eyes. “She can right?”

She shrug. “Her choice, if she wants to leave she can leave.” Shades eyebrows furrow as she poke Asriel’s chest. “Don’t tell anyone of my hideout, Got it!” She said sternly.

“Well I'm still living down here cuz it's comfortable and safe!” Chara said as she laid back down in her giant bed, rolling around and getting herself tangled up in covers.

“What hideout where?” Asriel asked as if he had no idea as to where he was.

“Not saying and no Chara, your a high target standing beside me that would lead them to ME. I don’t want THEM to capture me! Not yet anyways.”

“Bu-but I thought we were friends.” Chara said feeling betrayed at the girl kicking her out with nowhere to go.

“Are you leaving? Cause it sounds like you get to stay here as long as you want so long as no one finds this place.” Asriel sighed as he laid on his back.

“I’m not saying your kicked out, I’m only telling you the result. But if your staying you will follow MY rules.” Shade looked at Asriel. “And you, what are you going to do?”

“I’m here for the ride. Might need an extra hand, especially one that can cook.” The goat child said with a lazy wave.

“Actually how are you here? I can tell you're not really Asriel so that means you must be a displaced!” Chara said, not knowing how this guy had gotten here.

“A botched ritual. Once they realized how badly they messed up they started to teach me how to control my powers. Nice fellows actually,” He kicked his foot to an unknown tempo, worry pounding at his mind.

Chara brought up the ACT button and hit ‘Check’ on Asriel.

It brought up a ‘Stat’ screen and displayed his vitals, his power, the titles ‘God of Hyperdeath’ and ‘Prince of The Underground’ and a binding contract.

“...wha?” Chara said as she reread his stats over and over again trying to figure out what the binding contract was.

“Is… is there something on my face?” Asriel asked with worry.

“Azzy why does it say you are in a binding contract to deal with me…” Chara asked softly but with a dead tone of voice.

Silence. More silence. An abhorrent amount of silence. After so much silence, Asriel looked back to see Shade’s handgun had been leveled at his head once again. “Okay, now before anyone shoots me… exactly what does it mean to ‘deal’ with someone?” The goat child began to wave his arms about in a frantic manner, trying and failing to get his point across. “I mean, what if someone wanted to ‘strike a deal’, or maybe eve- yeah you’re uh… not buying it huh.”

Asriel gave a shaky sigh and put the back of his head closer to the barrel of the gun and closed his eyes solemnly. “You can shoot me now.”

“No don't kill him…” Chara says as she stops her friend from killing Asriel. Chara may have been hurt by Asriel being summoned to kill her, but she still couldn't bring herself to kill the goat bro.

“No, no no, please.” Asriel only raised his hands as if to show he had no problem with a bullet through the skull. “Ya don’t trust me. I get that, so I’m gonna do the one stupid thing that gets you to trust me. I’mma let ya kill me, so you can hear me out afterwards,” Chara looks at Asriel like he lost his goddamn mind conveniently forgetting that she could save load and reset.

“Your not planning to resurrect yourself are ya?” Shade asked a bit confused on his action.

“If I said yes, would you still shoot me?” Asriel asked, genuinely curious and with a finger raised.

“Those are shotguns with the ability to negate powers…” Chara said quietly as she still shivered slightly from those type of weapons.

He facepalmed and began rubbing his temples, sweating at what he had just put himself in. “Fudgepop sundaes and WHY CAN’T I SWEAR!?” Facepalming again , he sighed and shook his head. “No please, don’t let my permanent death stop you.” Chara took a note of him saying he couldn't swear for later as she tried to comfort the goat bro.

Rather swiftly, Asriel takes Chara in a bear hug and starts to sob softly. “I don’t wanna die… all I wanted to do was sleep off a hangover…” Chara flinched at being hugged like this although she still tried to comfort the poor guy.

“It's all right I won't let her kill you…” Chara whispered as she felt sorry for this guy being displaced against his will.

*sniff* “So you’ll hear me out?” He asked looking to Shade. Chara nodded her head trying to give a reassuring smile although she would gank him herself if he betrayed her Trust.

“You gonna answer her question or not?” Shade said though under her hood her cheeks puffed up.

Asriel shook his head and smacked his cheeks, shocking himself out of his emotional turmoil. “Hokay, it’s true, I was sent to find you, but it was only under the pretense that I observe your actions…” His eyes went blank, power forming beneath him. “Power provoked can cause much harm. Power provoked can bring much sadness. Power provoked can herald much hatred.” His magic faded and his eyes returned to normal as he shook his head in confusion. “Do you two like waffles?” Chara was completely thrown off by him suddenly asking about waffles, Chara was worried about Asriel as she glanced between him and her friend Shade. Shade just lets her gun arm slack, putting away her gun before pulling her hood off and revealing her face. A sure sign of her trusting him.

Asriel only smiled, excitedly getting to his feet and waving his arm. “You do! You do like waffles!”

He cleared his throat and dusted off his clothing. “So…is it cool if I hang out here for a bit? Make sure neither of you incur the wrath of the world beyond these walls?” He asked. Chara nodded her head as she sat down in one of the chairs. Chara pulled out her save and load menu hitting the save button creating a save state next to her bed just in case something went wrong.

A scroll enveloped by rainbow magic dropped at Celestia’s hooves, a smiling goat skull wax seal keeping it rolled closed. Opening the scroll, Celestia began to read the… chocolate stained letter.

“Alright, I’ve made contact! And I’m not even dead… yet. I’m hopeful that with time, I can get them to trust me enough to not attack me at the mention of getting them to talk to you. Uhh… I guess that’s all I have to report? Ah great, I got chocolate all over my pen…”

Finished reading the letter, and swiping a loose chunk of chocolate into her mouth secretly, sun princess commented. “Well, at least it's a work in progress.” Celestia said with a nod.

“Sister why do we not have Asriel grab Chara in her sleep?” Princess Luna asked her big sister.

“What one of the ponies said disturbs me. You remember bringing up the Black Slinger?”Celestia asked, Luna nodding and motioning for her sister to continue. “It was with her. I rather not take chances of Asriel's life.”

“He has power sufficient to defend himself dear sister, why not put more faith in him?” Luna argued.

“I am. This is Asriel’s choice, I didn’t inform him about it because I forgot what I was reported.” Celestia said calmly.

Luna gave a rather annoyed huff as she began writing out a response with untold fury and fervor. “Done, hopefully all goes as it should.” Without a seconds thought, the letter was sealed and sent, flying upon the winds of her magic.

Humming away a gentle tune, young Asriel had engrossed himself in the hole his two roommates called a kitchen. He almost didn't notice the magical scroll appear half deep in a casserole of lasagna.

“MY FEAST IS RUINED!”

Until he did. The child cried over the spoiled dish, wondering what monster decided to torment him so as he began to gently relieve the “sword” from its “stone”.

“Uh… I think the male just came in!” Asriel called out as he cleaned the wicked scroll, a wax moon used for it's seal.

Getting no response, Asriel began to walk about the hideout, finding Chara sleeping peacefully upon her bed. “Huh, well, it can't be that important. I just made contact…”

He sat down at the foot of her bed and undid the wax seal with a bit of fire.

“Asriel,

we thank you not only for finding Chara, but for managing a proper foothold within her compound. Now, it is with the utmost importance that you bring her to us.

Failure is NOT an option.

Your Princess”

“Oh sweet flibbity gibbit...I just made contact…” Asriel began to bang his head on the nearby wall, causing several shockwaves and creating a noticeable crater.
Shaking his head and steeling his resolve, Asriel wrote out a hasty note. Apologizing to Shade in advance and telling them that food was prepared for the night.

“God cram it why did she say Nocto.” Asriel spat as he began to fashion a portal underneath the sleeping Chara.

His objective secure, he followed the sleeping child through the rift, closing it off with a metal zipper and the note, not realizing a child sized cloaked being watched them with a grinning smile that was far too wicked.

As the diarchs of Equestria waited with bated breath for a response from Asriel, a rainbow colored rift had formed in the midst of the throne room.

Falling gently upon the marble floor was one Chara, asleep and undisturbed and Asriel, a shadow quite literally looming over his face.

“I did your dirty work. Am I free to go?” The child asked coldly.

Celestia walked up to him, sad at the sight of his darkened mood. “Yes Asriel. I set up a room just to your liking. It even has a kitchen,” She said as she nuzzled his cheek. “I’m sorry for my sister. She’s been in a cautious mood as of late.” She apologized.

Taking a breath and calming his nerves, Asriel quite literally shooed away the cloud at his face. “It’s alright… I just didn't think espionage was in the job description,” He opened a rift and began to walk through it. “I uh… need some air.”

The rift closed, Asriel going with it. At that moment Chara started to stir awake with her slowly sitting up and rubbing her eyes. She was startled awake as she looked around frantically, barely restraining herself from pulling out her knife.

Celestia looked at her incuriosity, now getting a better look at the so called ‘demon’. Seeing her panicked expression reminded her of the days of her student. She took a deep breath. “Hello there.” She said in a soothing, calming manner. Chara’s flight or fight reaction immediately kicked in as she turned to bolt towards the door in the opposite direction of Celestia. Only problem with that was that the huge gold doors are closed. Chara continues trying to push them open or break them down as she was terrified of being in the same room as Celestia, not wanting to be turned to stone.

Well… that was an unexpected reaction. Celestia thought as she levitated the child back over to her, conjuring three seats in a triangle formation. She placed Chara in the lonely chair and held her their until she had calmed down.

“I don't want to be turned to stone or banished to the Moon!” Chara cried out as she struggled against the magical grip of the Alicorn, nearly breaking out a few times. Luckily for Celestia, Luna saw what her sister was trying to do and did the same, adding her magical grasp as insurance.

“We should not have allowed Asriel to leave, he should have stayed at our side.” Luna said with a bit of annoyance, the child before her causing her ire to burgeon.

“We aren’t,” Celestia continued her calm demeanor in hope the child would calm down. Chara started to calm down but she still looked like she would dart at a moment's notice which is the reason they kept her seated despite her being calm.

The princess of the moon cleared her throat and focused her gaze. “Child!” She said as quietly as possible. “For what hast thou caused such havoc upon our soldiers?!”

“Hey they attacked me first and I only tried to run away!” Chara said telling the absolute truth

Luna was rather taken aback by this statement, but not undeterred. “Recount the event!” She asked as politely as she could. “Know that each word you speak will be the truth!”Chara begins recounting the event telling every single detail from her perspective.

Not dropping her thousand yard gaze, Luna turned to her sister. “Art thou sure the spell was cast correctly? We would have hope in the loyalty of guards meant to defend you.”

Celestia noded. “Yes its working. And the ponies mentioned, I don’t recognize them. Do you dear sister?”

“No… I don't believe we do…” Luna had begun to cast serious doubt upon just how much control her sister and she truly held over their kingdom. “We art left but with a single course of action, for bringing to light this farce we pardon you.”

However she moved closer to Chara as she eyed her again. “I say that, but it does trouble me that you have caused such harm. Community Service sounds fair for the lives you've taken.” Her sister smiled, happy to see her sister catched up to modern equestrian law now theses day.

“But I've never taken any lives (neutered them sure) but never killed anyone!” Chara yelled out as she had specifically aimed in a way not to kill people.

Never dropping eye contact, a rather large and shiny book of laws popped into existence as it's pages flipped open. It stopped turning it's pages and Luna donned a pair of half moon reading glasses. “Mhm… mhm… ah I suppose that makes sense…”

The book closed as Luna turned to cast judgement. “Thou still did castrate several ponies, leading to a mass loss of what could have been life! Twenty months community service!” The sound of a gavel impacting wood echoed from nowhere, as if to accentuate her point.

“Nope that is unfair I'm a freaking kid and they attacked me first!” Chara said as she tried to struggle free again.

“Forty months community service!” The invisible gavel struck twice more as Luna yelled to the heavens.

“Well I guess it's time to see if I can load time!” Chara said as she tried to pull up the load button.

Celestia, easing a hoof down her frazzled sister's mane, began to hum a rather soothing melody. All present began to lose their strained edge and actually took note of her presence.

“Lulu, you can't just augment some… one is it? You can't just augment the punishment of another simply because they refuse.”

“But! She mercilessly harmed unknown brigands who…” The princess of the moon began to debate her current standing… only to find the faults of her argumentative foundation.

She huffed as Celestia turned to Chara. “Three months. In the meantime, we can give you proper room and board complete with all that entails.” The princess offered in compromise. “Think about it, you'd get a private bathroom with actual plumbing…”

“You drive a hard bargain…but still you're wanting me to actually work…how about 1 month of community service?”Chara says trying to haggle her punishment down.

The princess of the sun smirked and raised an eyebrow. “One month and fourteen days. At the end of a successful week, you will be awarded a piece of expertly crafted chocolate made by an unparalleled artisan.”

Luna had to intervene at this point. “Sister, we do not have an unparalleled artisan at our beck and call…” She whispered, only to have her nose pawed.

“Nonsense dear sister, we contracted one just the other day!” Celestia stated with a beaming smile.

“Okay you have yourself a bargain!” Chara said a little bit over enthusiastic. “But I get to keep the room and board after I'm done!” Chara finished making sure to cover her butt for a place to stay.

The invisible gavel struck once more, a sign that all was well and good. “I don't believe I'd have it any other way. Welcome aboard Chara, tomorrow begins your first day of guard duty.” Celestia said with a giggle. Chara's face showed her horror at the idea of actually training.

Deep within hidden caverns, a menagerie of all that was wicked in the world of Equis gathered in meeting. The night’s discussion: The control of the most powerful weapon in existence.

All seats had been filled within the mystically lit conference room, the last griffin emissary having been replaced by a wizened one eyed Owl lion.

“There are conflicting reports among those soldiers we've placed within her majesty's ranks.” The bird said calmly. “A rift walker aiding the weapon?” The bird took a puff from a corncob pipe as the room was flooded with the frenzied buzzing of the Changelings.

“The weapon is in the hands of the princesses! What do we do now!?” one of the changelings worriedly.

“We play it's game. Have it come to us, why waste resources now that we have it and the sister's right where we want them?” One of the ponies explained.

“But still that Voidwalker is a wild card…” One of the changelings said frowning at the report of Asriel.

One of the griffins began to laugh, all eyes now on him. He was a rather slender Titmouse tiger wearing a pair of box shaped glasses. “Leave that to me, our new tool seems to enjoy the taste of red meats, and as chief of all exported meats within Griffinstone, it will be more than easy enough to lace the shipments with a powerful enough tranquilizer to the only meat eater in that castle.”

He gave a wicked cackle as more buzzing flooded the room. The changelings were a little skeptical at the idea as the report had said she was addicted to chocolate not meat.

“And the weapon?” Another changeling asked. “The reports say they eat chocolate.”

“The void walker seems an easier target.” Another griffin countered. “It is weak and cowardly, obtaining it and breaking it will give us the weapon.”

“You may be right but we have no way of holding him…” One of the pony said as he looked down at the reports talking about how he has portals.

Four heavy bracers were dropped atop the table. The Racoon having caught the attention of all present. “A new line of magic suppressors designed to loop ones magic into the caster. This new development has however increased my organizations fee,” As always, he began to sip from a glass of red wine.

“What if they do not use magic would it still work on them?” One of the ponies asked as they brought out a hidden report. The report showed that their ‘weapon’ never used magic but an entirely different set of energy.

Two small rings were slid across the table. “A field test will put our worries to rest, and as a reasonable pony, the costs of the success or failure shall fall upon our company.”

Murmurs and buzzing echoed through the hall, the Racoon smiling all the while.