The Dimensional Well

You stumble forward as the flash of magic fades, trying to find your footing on the new patch of ground you’re standing upon. You hear gasps of surprise from both Rainbow and Twilight, and as your vision readjusts it becomes easy to see why.

A scene of pure chaos unfolds before your eyes. The earth itself is fractured, with huge, jagged columns and deep depressions that scar the landscape. The edges of the horizon seem to tilt upwards instead of tapering down, and it’s difficult to make the distinction between land and sky. The city that was once Fillydelphia is a mangled mass of twisted buildings that melt into one another as they claw their way in unnatural directions. In the distance, an aircraft carrier lies nestled between two mountain peaks, and the fighters that were once upon its flight deck lie scattered and burning across the mountain face. Nearby, a vast quantity of water from seemingly nowhere spills forth into an endless chasm. Screaming echoes on the wind and smoke rises into the air, which in the place of a sun holds a swirling mass of darkness and light that you could only describe as a miniature black hole, which continually pulls in and consumes debris from the ruined city and the surrounding environment.

You tilt your head up as far as you can, and to your shock you see a mirror of the landscape repeated above you… yet the architecture of the buildings looks far more familiar to you than anything you’ve seen in magical horse land so far…

“It’s… it’s Philadelphia. No way.”

“Uh, don’t you mean Fillydelphia?” Rainbow asks.

“No. That’s one of Earth’s cities up there. There’s no doubt about it.”

“It’s as I feared. She’s not merely opening a portal… the two dimensions are merging,” Celestia states grimly. “And if this continues, it will certainly spell the end of all life in both our worlds.”

Twilight’s ears fold back with worry. “W-What do you mean, Princess?”

The alicorn raises a wing and sweeps it in an arc, prompting you to follow it with your eyes and take in more of the surroundings.

“It’s as you can see. The two planes of reality are folding in upon one another, pulling closer and closer together. This will continue until both dimensions are compressed down into a single, infinitely dense point of matter and energy. Though, on the bright side, I suppose we’ll all be long dead before it reaches that stage. I’m sure this is partly the will of our friend Shub-Neighgurath, as it’s always shared, along with the ancient death cult that summoned it, a penchant for the total annihilation of all living things. Hence why Luna and I imprisoned it in Tartarus all those ages ago.”

“Oh,” Twilight mumbles, for once at a loss for words.

And you can’t blame her for that one bit. You knew things were bad based on what you saw on the trip to the underground Canterlot bunker with Rainbow, but holy fuck this is so much worse than you could’ve imagined! You honestly don’t know what to do or how to feel about it.

But while you, Twilight, and Celestia are all somewhat paralyzed by the weight of events around you, Rainbow doesn’t seem to care much at all, as her attention is squarely focused elsewhere.

“So that’s your world up there, Anon? It looks AWESOME! I wanna go check it out!”

She circles you in the air like an excited puppy, and like always, you find you can’t remain gloomy in the face of her enthusiasm.

However, Princess Buzzkill is quick to capture the excited pegasus in her golden aura, pulling her back to the ground before she can get too far.

“You mustn’t, Rainbow Dash! If you approach too close to the planar intersection, you’ll be captured and consumed by the gravity of the magical well that’s pulling the two dimensions together. Whatever else you do here, you must always remember to keep your flying low to the ground, is that understood?”

The pouty pegasus flops back on her haunches and crosses her hooves. “Yeah, yeah, stay low, I get it.”

You glance up again look at the magical well she’s talking about. The black sphere staining the air is ringed by shifting orange light, steadily being fed by a constant stream of debris pulled from both Equestria below and Earth above…

And though you didn’t notice it earlier due to how much else has been going on, there’s one more pony here, her gaze also directed at the entrancing phenomenon. She stands upon a gigantic, sickly mound of undulating flesh, eyeballs, and mouths which seems to ooze forth from one of the many nearby chasms. A thin, nerve-like protrusion with yet another mouth on the end of it rises from the mass and emits a guttural screech in some long-dead tongue, which causes two yellow ears to perk up and a long pink tail to swish back and forth with excitement.

“Oh! Do we have guests? I-Is my stud muffin here to see me?”

The pony turns around, and sure enough, Fluttershy is there, beaming at you with her familiar bright smile.

“Look, Anon! The portal is opening! D-Do you feel any different yet? Are you imagining running your strong, thick monkey paws all over my soft, vulnerable flutter-flanks, secure in the knowledge that you could do ANYTHING you wanted to me, and there’d be nothing I could do to stop it, because I’m just a weak, helpless little pony at the mercy of a big, savage pre-preda-a— OH! Oh my…”

She bites her lip, her eyelids flutter, and there’s a sudden squelching sound. Yeah, you’re pretty sure that one didn’t come from the flesh blob. In fact, the blob screeches in protest as some unknown liquid suddenly drips from underneath her flagging tail into one of its many open mouths.

“Oh, sorry about that Shubby-chan, I guess I got a little carried away for a moment there!” She scuffs a hoof and blushes, clamping her tail back down securely against her rear.

“Shubby-chan?” Celestia murmurs in disbelief.

“She… she really tamed it!” Twilight cries, bouncing up and down with excitement. “This is amazing! Think of all the things we could learn about these extra-dimensional entities by having a cooperative one on hoof!” She turns to Fluttershy. “So, I’m curious, how many eons within the timeless void did it take for you to ultimately bring it under your control? If you weren’t keeping an accurate count, rounding down to the nearest millennia or so should be fine; any estimate would be helpful!”

Fluttershy looks confused. “T-Timeless void? I’m sorry… I don’t really know what you’re talking about. I didn’t ‘tame’ Shubby-chan at all! We became friends when I visited her in Tartarus!”

The flesh blob gurgles, then extends one of its protrusions, which Fluttershy fearlessly nuzzles her cheek against in a show of affection.

“Who’s a good eldritch horror? It’s you! Yes, you are!” she coos before turning back to the rest of you. “See? Any creature can be a friend if you show them a little kindness.”

Twilight’s jaw drops at the sight. “Wait. So you’re telling us you didn’t use the ChronoSphere to bring Shub-Neighgurath under your control?”

“Oh, you mean this thingy?” Fluttershy asks, pulling out a small, glowing metallic sphere from somewhere behind her. “Well, I tried to follow the directions from your book, but it turns out I’m just no good with magic stuff like you are, Twilight. I-I really tried my best, though. Thankfully, Shubby-chan agreed to help me anyway when I told her what I was trying to do!”

The mass of flesh gurgles in agreement.

“Oh! By the way, Anon, are eldritch horrors your feti—”

“NO.”

Her ears droop, and even the entire flesh mound underneath her seems to sag dejectedly. “Oh. Well, darn. I thought I was really on to something this time, too. Sorry, Shubby-chan.”

Celestia steps forward. “Fluttershy, while I admire your commitment to spreading friendship and harmony, I’m afraid they cannot apply to creatures such as this which subsist on the suffering of what they consider lesser beings. I’m sorry, but you have no friend in Shub-Neighgurath. My best guess is that it merely tolerates you because it finds you to be an amusing diversion to toy with as it fulfills its ultimate desire to wipe out all life on any plane of existence it happens to shunt a shard of its malevolent essence to.”

Her horn ignites with magic, and she flashes the eldritch horror a subtle smile.

“If you wish to remain safe, I’d suggest moving away from it now.”

“P-Princess!” Fluttershy gasps, clutching one of the mound’s protrusions. “How could you be so mean? She told me herself… she only wants to be our friend!”

“Fluttershy, look around you!” Twilight cries. “Th-the whole world is bucked up now! If it was just opening a portal like you said, it wouldn’t involve all this destruction!”

“B-But she said this was the only way to get Anon’s libido back, and that she’d fix everything later with the Time-thingy!”

Celestia stomps a hoof. “Absolutely not! A creature such as this must not be trusted with an artifact of such power.” She locks eyes with the little pony and her expression softens. “Fluttershy, please, allow me to have it. It’s still not too late— I can banish that abomination and return everything to normal with the help of the ChronoSphere, and this dire mistake will be made to have never happened.”

“Yeah, you should trust the Princess!” Dash adds. “Besides, it’s not like Anon needs his albedo back or whatever, anyway. Trust me, his mojo’s all there! I make sure of it every day!”

Fluttershy’s eye twitches. “E-Excuse me?”

Oh boy, now she’s done it. You were hoping to avoid having to do this, but maybe it’d be better to come clean now before Banana Hush gets too pissed to listen to reason.

“Dash is telling the truth. Look, I lied to you a while back, Flutters. There’s nothing wrong with my libido, it’s just that I fuck her so often my balls are usually shriveled up pouches of dust most of the time. Do you really think I drink all that Pony-ade and constantly eat all that asparagus because I like it?”

The little butter yellow pegasus starts to tremble.

“S-S-So then your fetish is…”

You scratch the back of your head. “Yeah… turns out my fetish is cumming inside Rainbow Dash. At this point I’m pretty sure her body chemistry consists of like 75% human cum now.”

Dash nods sagely, seeming to agree with your last statement.

“A-And… and I went through all that… all that stuff for the past month and a half… for nothing?”

“Um… yeah, I guess so. Sorry about that?”

Fluttershy closes her eyes and adopts a relaxed pose, as if she’s about to fall into a zen state. At first you hold a sliver of hope that things might calm down… but then, she gradually inhales a huge amount of air, points her head to the heavens, and…

“RRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!”

…totally loses it.

All of you cower and cover your ears. Even the flesh blob beneath her shuts its many eyes and visibly cringes at the outburst. When it finally stops, the pony before you has undergone a dramatic change. Her mane and tail are disheveled, she grinds her teeth in anger, and her eyes belie a smoldering rage barely held in check by what little she can salvage of her composure. She looks to each of you in turn for several moments, only deciding to speak when she’s brought her breathing under control again.

“Okay, you know what?! No. No good meanie liar LIARS like you guys don’t GET to have ancient magical time artifacts! I think I’ll just keep this for myself, thank you.”

None of you dare say a word in response.

“Do you guys have any idea what I had to go through to get this thing? What horrible things I had to do in order to free Shubby-chan?! Well guess what, you’re about to find out! Watch closely, Anon! I may not be able to be ‘hip’ and ‘with it’ and ‘capable of forming healthy relationships with peers of the opposite sex’ like Rainbow Dash, but I’ll show you I can be an exciting bad, bad girl just the same!”

She produces a small carton of milk from out of nowhere, opens it, and takes a few big gulps before casually tossing the spent carton on the ground beside her.

“Ha! How do you like that?!” she boasts. “Drinking straight from the carton and littering! Where’s the meek and timid good girl Fluttershy now, huh?! I bet you wish you had her back, but TOO. BAD. She’s gone forever! Mwahahahahaha—!”

While Fluttershy falls into a bout of maniacal laughter, you take the opportunity to ask Celestia, “Hey, was all she had to do to free that blob stuff like that? ‘Cause if that’s the kind of security you have down in Tartarus, I’m moving the hell out of town the second this is over.”

“No, little things like littering and poor hygiene wouldn’t make a difference,” she replies. “The soul wards are weakened when they come into contact with an individual possessing a soul burdened with a great many misdeeds. I have no doubt that the accumulated weight of her usual daily activities involving you were more than enough to break them.”

“Ah. All the rape attempts.”

“Indeed.”

“Look at this, Anon!” the crazy yellow pegasus shouts, drawing your attention to her chest, which is slightly puffier now for some reason. “That’s right! This huge tuft can be ALL. YOURS. Heh, I bet you didn’t think I had it in me to be this lewd, huh? M-Maybe I’ll even get you to bury your face in it and hold my hoof while we gently make love to each other in the missionary position! I bet you’d like that, wouldn’t you, you naughty, dirty, sexy, hunky monkey?!”

“Woohoo! You tell ‘em, Fluttershy!” Dash cheers.

“Rainbow Dash! Don’t encourage her!” Twilight whines, though her pleas are ignored as Dash whistles a cat call, prompting another suggestive tirade from the yellow pony.

The alicorn by your side chuckles at the scene. “You know, Twilight was right earlier. Our Element of Kindness truly is an astounding pony. To think, all the villains Equestria has faced, all the trials we’ve overcome over the centuries… and it’s little Fluttershy that brings our world to its collective knees. It’s almost comical! I’d even be willing to say that this might be destiny at work, but to what end not even I can fathom.”

She turns to you, an exasperated look on her face.

“Anonymous, will you promise me something? Next time… if there is a next time… will you please just rut her and save us all the trouble? Can you do that for me?”

You shrug. “Eh… sorry, Sunny D. I’ve got standards, remember?”

She laughs again. “Of course. It’s funny how sometimes even imaginary obstacles are the most troublesome.”

And with that, she steps away from you and flares her wings, drawing the attention of all present with a commanding voice.

“As much as I’d like to watch these antics for a while longer, I believe time is of the essence. Are you three ready?”

You, Twilight, and Rainbow exchange a glance with one another, then nod to Celestia.

“Very well,” she says, turning back to you. “Anonymous, do it.”

Looks like it’s go time. Better make whatever you’re going to do count, Anon…