Infinity's Edge

by Caldoric
A young man arrives in Equestria, and is immediately beset on all sides by hostile forces... but was it through fickle Fate, or the deliberate design of a more cosmic entity? And will he survive the war for power that boils below the world's surface?

Alright, so I find myself in Equestria after falling (more like jumping, really,) through a stray dimensional portal, and -- I kid you not -- everything goes completely to shit in less than an hour. Shortly after that, I'm faced with the fact that Equestria, as everyone back home thinks they know it, is very much different from the show. I mean, Equestria itself is pretty much the same, just more involved than anything ever really suggests... and the lands beyond? Completely whack!

I've dealt with Manticores, Dragons, Changelings, being mutated against my will --twice!-- and more! On top of that, the planet Equestria's on -- called "Terra," oddly enough, -- is is supposedly Spherus Magna, (except umpteen bazillion years later,) but the moon begs to differ; there are several folks from both Bionicle and MLP running around who should either be dead or gone; Humans apparently aren't native to Earth; a self-proclaimed "goddess" has selected me as one of several new elemental protector-types to help maintain "balance" for the whole planet; and I've somehow managed to piss off just about everyone I've met in pretty short order, including my psychopathic alt-personality brain-roommate.

Well, everyone except Discord, of course. He just thinks it's all hilarious, and keeps trying to show me "best of" video montages of my life here so far, all while I'm...

Actually, you know what? I should start at the beginning of all this, for sanity's sake.

I'm not a drinking man, but I'm sure anyone'd be half tempted to pick up the habit after all that... Assuming I can find anything resembling alcohol here, that is.

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Written in the same world as Nova_Blast's "When Legends Rise," both with his permission and in conjunction with the events of his story. It's also a reboot of my other "Infinity's Edge" story, which was set in Nova's previous iteration of the same concept, and both are now defunct.

Incomplete
Profanity
Adventure
Violence
Crossover
Death
Human
Gore
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Dark
Alternate Universe
Science Fiction
 
QTOCK

56487 words: Estimated about 5 hours to read

7 Chapters:

  1. An Uninvited Guest in an Unusual Land 2019-05-22 07:30:23 UTC
    9932
  2. From Old High to New Low 2019-05-22 07:30:29 UTC
    9676
  3. Rage and Hope, in Their Measure 2019-05-22 10:06:59 UTC
    13658
  4. Change Comes on Tattered Wings... 2019-05-22 19:20:02 UTC
    5909
  5. ...To Set Plans in Motion 2019-07-05 19:08:48 UTC
    7513
  6. Echoes of a Fallen Shadow 2019-08-14 20:01:01 UTC
    5092
  7. Preparations, Plans, and Traps 2019-12-19 22:01:37 UTC
    4707