Nightmareverse: Cosmic Eternity

by Jack Redplay

Chapter 5: Drowning

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It began long ago... On the first year of my reign...

A mysterious Alicorn was transported from a different timeline, where I never ruled this world, she tried to flee back to her own time but we managed to capture her, we questioned her, and while she spouted a lot of nonsense she did mention the magical properties of the artifact she used to come here. The Friendship Map.

She said we would never be able to make it work, that the magic needed was impossible in this point in time and only she knew the spell.

We didn't listen to her


Let bright wings of lightning rain


Patchwork sat down near a tree as they looked upon the permanent sunset of their reality.

"Doesn't it get boring to always have a sunset that never ends?" Asked Patchwork as they looked to their right, Perry was also looking at the sunset.

"Nah you'll get used to it, besides, one day they'll probably update it to (#&!" Perry said.

"Huh?"

"$%¿" ... Perry realized. "Wh- why? What am I saying?!"

PURGING


Things have not been looking good for Manehattan. The Empress Moon's flagship got destroyed, multiple rebel cells have been obliterated, a raid on a bank and their most important research lab, lost the general of their royal guard and finally, 'lost' their mayor, partially.

Rarity can no longer uphold her own laws. She lost her programming for proper punishment..

And now exactly what Inklord noted as a positive had begun to horribly backfire. The rebel groups have begun their battle royale... but literally everywhere. Civillian casualties skyrocketed. It's absolute pandemonium.

Empress Moon's presense in the city has only made things worse, now the rebel groups compete to kill her, whenever she is. Bringing everyone down along their way.

All this in less than 4 days


Chapter 5: Driwninh

Thursday 7:30 AM

"You see, Jack" Axiom said to no one in particular, playing with a knife, overlooking a destroyed building and many ponies gathering around it. "You can't really trust anyone in this shithole of a world" Axiom focuses her eyes on a random pony.


So, this is what they meant by deal?


"Yup! Enjoying youself?" Axiom throws the knife.


Why did we just murder an entire building of ponies,

fought a lightsaber wielding cat

and opened a singularity?


"You see Jack, I play the long game, it gets pretty boring i'll admit. But when we get to the end..." The knife strikes the pony she was looking at in the head, the ponies around the corpse panic. "Jackpot"


Heh, are you going to explain the plan?


"Why would I do that?" Axiom kept talking to herself while jumping from building to buidling.


So... No sharing?


"Jack, there's no reason for me to explain what I do, keeps the readers wondering" She got closer to the Rarity's Diamond's HQ. "And right now your friend Sky is about to be taken away in a ambulance!"


I guess... but like, answer this, can you see the future?

You seem to perfectly predict everything

That has happened so far


"Nope, Axi ain't a medium" She said. "It's just that we've been through this a million times"


...Huh?


"Look, Jack, shut the fuck up, your little sister is doing work" Axi looked over at an ambulance that emerged from the back of HQ, the front was completely blocked by a riot. She knew exactly who was inside. She followed the ambulance around the city, jumping and wall running through each building gracefully. "I'll be the protagonist of this chapter"


Fine...


Axiom followed the ambulance for 5 minutes until it reached Manehattan's boundaries. The citie's thermal protection shield extended farther than the city, Axiom sets her eyes on one final crossroads. "Come on... take the left..." The ambulance takes the left. Axiom jumps in excitement! "YES! Jack! We're in the right course! The pieces are falling into place, not too long now...!" She turns to look at you. "I hope you're all ready for a full-lenght chapter featuring your's truly as the star!" She smiled. She jumped off the building.


Bar of Broken Heroes

7:30 AM

A grey unicorn entered the bar alone, the bar was filled with lots of ponies and furries crying, a TV showed a news broadcast from a show called "Citrus Quest" talking about an attack on a building that was controlled by a rebel group called, Capricorns, recent events are taking a toll on the population. He approaches a blue earth pony who was drinking non-stop.

"H-hey Vida"

"What the fuck do you want Gamepad, Barrel is fucking dead, as you can see, I clearly don't miss it at all" Vida finishes another bottle of beer. "Nope, all of those fuckers can stay dead for all I care, piss off, faggot" Vida pushes Gamepad away.

"Wa-wait, Barrel is-" He gets punched by Vida, everyone in the bar turns to look at them.

"I said. Piss. Off."


Gene Corp

8:10 AM

"Aw man, I needed that" Said Axiom as she was sucking the life out of a random brown unicorn. "I missed having this"


Wait, are you saying my magic stealing-


"Yep! That's why I was looking you for so long, you literally had that one part of me that I gave away for a reason"


Why did you wait so long if you already had me countless times


"I doesn't work like that, big bro, we had to be compatible before the merge" Axiom walks down a hallway. "You know how DNA works? I mean, like... I don't research much but I know that if i attempted to merge with you instantly it would cause something related to how incest fucks people up" Axiom stops at a door. "Like, I had to wait till your DNA evolved and was different enough from mine for a succesful merge..." She peeks her head through a door. "I'm calling you big bro because thats exactly what you are! You are my brother!"


As if that makes sense...


"Cyberpunk Equestria as a genre is flawed my dear brother, you either focus too much on one thing and it becomes repetitive, I spice things up! Can you count how many stories out there feature ME?" She taps her bunny foot really fast. "2! No- wait... 3... 4?" She struggles to think. "Ugh... My adventures are a work in progress" Axiom cartwheels inside and looks at each sign on the doors.

"Can I help you..."

Axiom turns to the voice. "Oh hey! Nah, I'm just searching for-"

"Three doors to the left" Said the unknown stallion.

"Ok! Thanks!" Axiom happily hopped away.

The silver unicorn entered an office, in the center was a desk with a name engraved on it. Silver Coin. It seems to be his as he sits on a red leather throne, in a big normal looking office. He taps his desk to reveal a monitor and a keyboard. "Could it be..." Said 'Silver Coin'. The monitor showed a red marker near him. "Hmm.. So the deal finally took place... I was starting to wonder if Empress Moon was going to go rogue on our plan..." Silver Coin sighs and types something else on the keyboard. The monitor added a blue marker and a grey marker, the markers were far apart from each other. "Only a matter of time..."


Rarity's Diamonds

7:30 AM

Inklord and Empress Moon watched a news report about the destroyed headquarters of a fallen rebel group. They were inside the command center, outside the building were guards protecting the place from a riot that has formed.

"That has to be Jack, there's no other way" Inklord slammed his helmet on the ground in frustration, slightly cracking it. "Why... just... FUCK"

Empress Moon only stared at the screen.

"And this is all your fault!" Screamed Inklord. "I don't fucking know.. what you did... how it was done... but Jack is my fucking b- Best friend! In one minute I saw him feel betrayed, abandoned, and... absorbed by that fucking... furry! What even is she?!"

"She's... a god..." Empress Moon looked away from the screen and walked to a wall, staring down. "Long ago... before you three were even born..."


FLASHBACK

Canterlot, Main Palace, Throne Room

April 1, 2045


"She struck like a bomb... and retreated like a storm..."


SMASH!

The main castle doors were torn down in a fraction of a second. Empress Moon teleported in to deal with the threat head on...Only to be met by her palace littered with the dead bodies of her entire guard.

"Wh-WHAT!" She stared at all the frozen horrified faces of what once was her entire army. Her entire army. This was the only thing standing between a threat and herself... and here it was... gutted, torn apart from the inside... She could see the bodies even extending far outside... who... who did this?

"That would have to be me!"

Empress Moon turned to look at the stairs that led to her throne room, in them was sitting a black furred anthro bunny with a black trench coat and black jeans, beside her was a twin-blade leaning on the hoofrail. Her purple eyes were fixed on Empress Moon, not blinking ever.

"Who- who are y-"

The bunny interrupted. "The name's Axiom, A-X-I-O-M. People don't usually remember my nam-"

"How dare you... do this!" Empress Moon interrupts and attacks with a gigantic magic laser.

Axiom simply flicks the attack away with a simple poke. "How rude, like, I get it, you're a bitch, but that's not one way to properly treat a guest"

"You... how did..."

"Heh, you call those guards? Let me tell you, they suck" Axiom chuckled. "But guess what doesn't suck! What I'm about to tell you to do for me!"

Empress Moon attempted to take a step back but she trips on one of the bodies, in that time, Axiom was already in front of her, she is startled by the dead purple eyes that just stare into her soul. "I want a brother! Look, I know you've doing shady deals with those Gene Corp dudes, I can give you exactly what you need, the deal is that you give the result to me... and I can give you... a spot"


"I was a fool for accepting her deal..." Empress Moon said. "But she proved cooperative... in the whole.. process"


Diamond Tower

April 13, 2055

Empress Moon looked down at the baby red unicorn that playfully hugged her left hoof.

"Your highness, If you may, we are going to be running some more tests soon, can you please-"

Empress Moon pets the red baby unicorn. "I'm taking this one"

The scientist was surprised. "Oh- well then..."


"The moment I saw him, I knew he was the one"


She shakes the baby off her hoof, the red unicorn baby rolls on the ground until it bumped on it's blue brother, the scientists levitate them both. "Follow me, your majesty"

Major Rarity watched and recorded. She approaches another scientist. "I'll be taking the blue one, if it doesn't bother you"


Canterlot, Main Palace, Empress' Quarters

April 14, 2055

Empress Moon arrived in the palace along with the baby on the Queenbreaker. Empress Moon took him to her private quarters and sat him down on a small chair.

"This will be your bed" Empress Moon said. "And you'll be of great use to me when you no longer need it"

The baby sneezes, accidentally showing a small magic surge on it's horn. The baby extends it's short hooves, trying to hug Empress Moon.


"At first, I didn't care much for him..."


"Oh! Look at you, already showing some potential" Empress Moon caresses it's mane. "You little Jack of all trades"


Gene Corp, Archives

April 17, 2077

"And that's how it happened!" Said Axiom to nobody in the archives room. "She took you in just to use you!.. Well.. just so I could use you!"


Really...


"Mhmm!" Axiom laughs. "What a shitty life I must say, glad it's not me" Axiom grabs a small tube from a drawer. It's another holo-scroll. "Alrighty, here it is" She opens it and the image of a blue unicorn appears. "Meet your blood brother, Sandman Blueplay!"


I... remember him


"Yep yep! He was there that day, aw man, remember that day? That was the best day" She puts the holo-scroll back in it's place. "I wanted you to have a good look at him before we go to kill him"


Rarity's Diamonds

8:35 AM

Inklord looked at the map of Manehattan. "I have to find Jack.. I can't stand seeing him like that.."

Empress Moon presses her hoof on a specific quadrant. "I know where she'll go next... she's going after his first brother..."

"H-his... Jack has a brother?.... First?!" Inklord is suprised.

Empress Moon nods. "You know someone named 'Sandman Blueplay'?"

Inklord's jaw drops. "I... met the stallion... two days ago.. we actually worked together... I noticed how similar he was to..."

"If he's not here she'll target his house" Empress Moon marked many spots on the map. "I don't know how many... brothers does Jack have. I only know of the first batch, she's going to collect them... this was the deal.."


"I'll need 36 of them!"


"What is... this fucking DEAL?! What did she promise?! What was so fucking important..." Inklord almost breaks down in tears.

"She... promised me... a 'spot'.."

"A spot for what?!"


Gene Corp, Archives

8:35 AM

"And now meet everyone else" Axiom rapidly swipes to the left, showing multiple unicorns, each a different color, none repeat. "We got the whooooole crew in here!" Axiom drops the holo-scroll and walks up to a wall. "Shall we begin?" She phases through it.

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