When Worlds Collide

Cyburst awoke to find that he was not alone in his room. He jolted upright to find that he wasn’t even in his room. He started to remembered what happened a mere ten hours before. Aqua Boom falling out of the sky, Mia turning into a Lycan, and Rain Whisper making a small joke. Rain whisper, she looked so much like Quiet Harp. The name brought up dark memories. the attack on ponyville, Cyburst first death and Candy Corn’s... It even brought back the memory of him killing... He need some air. Cyburst got out of his makeshift bed and carefully stepping over the sleeping ponies and others and walked outside. he could only think of one place to go at the moment. Where the air was cleanest.

Cyburst entered the Everfree Forest and walked aimlessly around until he knew he was totally lost, because only then could you find the place. Cyburst kept walking until he felt the ground become slightly less stable and made no sound as he walked on it. he stopped walking  and took a leaf from a nearby tree. He began to do what he always did when he was alone. He brought the leaf up to his mouth and used it as a whistle.

(Insert temporal tower music from Pokemon mystery dungeon : explorers of time)

“It has been years since I have seen that face, I thought for sure you would be sick of this place” A voiced echoed throughout the forest,

“Why is that, mysterious voice that seems to be emanating from everywhere?” Cyburst said as he finished his tune.

“I thought you would be gone forever, to be seen never again” The voice said, “Why have you abandoned your code? You are now no more than a dead toad”

The sound of metal on metal echoed throughout the forest, it had been the distinct sound of the unsheathing of a sword, or blade.

“Why do you want to fight something that can’t be killed, Zecora?” Cyburst said as he sighed, “and when have you ever liked weapons, for that matter?”

“Since you left me here to rot” Zecora said, her voice changing from the normal voodoo-like manner to a deadly tone. “And trust me, I can kill you”

Zecora moved fast behind him, swinging the sword into a downward motion towards his head. To her surprise, Cyburst did nothing to stop the blade and it sliced cleanly through his body,cutting him in two.

Cyburst, however, smiled. his left half suddenly burst into ash and disappeared into thin air. the right half of Cyburst quickly grew the left half back, as if nothing had happened.

“That, Zecora, is a privilege not even I have.” Cyburst said, still smiling, “And I never left you to rot.”

“What are you talking about? You steal every single one of my supplies and run.” She said, “But not with both eyes” she said, smiling.

“I didn’t take any supplies of yours, I wouldn’t unless you said I could.” Cyburst said as he started to frown,” And as you can see, as well as I can see, I have both eyes.”

Zecora was shocked, “You are not Cyber Burst” she said.

“I am too Cyber Burst.” Cyburst said, furrowing his brow. “And I’m standing on the ruins of the Mirage Temple.”

“What is The Mirage Temple?” Zecora asked,

“The temple in which I found the scroll of camouflage, my first ever adventure in a long story of... adventuring.” Cyburst said a he backed up. “the place where I outsmarte-”

Cyburst was interrupted by the solid object that, while unseen, could be felt. The one thing that he knew wasn’t supposed to be there. Cyburst turned around and felt the sandstone surface with his hooves.

“You have gone insane Cyber Burst, You were never an adventurer, you were a Silver Sword, and nothing more.”

“Wait a minute, did you say Silver Sword?” Cyburst said as he turned around, “What gender is Mirage?”

“Yes, I said Silver Sword” Zecora said, “I do not know the Mirage you speak of”

“Crap, I need to go Zecora, something terrible has happened.” Cyburst said as he built up magical energy in his horn, and vanished from sight.

“What? get back here! Cyburst!” Zecora screamed,

Cyburst had teleported back to the destroyed Ponyville, or where it should have been. Ponyville was standing tall, as if the war never happened.

Dozens of Ponies crowded around the team of ponies, Rain Whisper hid behind her mother and father, Mia and Spitfire seemed to be greeting the ponies, Luna was examining the town in shock, Aqua Boom, Honeydew and Jax were confused, The elements of harmony stared at themselves in shock, the four elemental ponies that were present stared at their mare or stallion selves in awe.

“Damn! I’m hot!” Mare Gaia cried,

“Awww, I wanted to see more of destroyed Ponyville,” Aqua Boom said, “I’ve already seen all of regular Ponyville.”

“Likewise” Stallion Gaia said,

Aero looked irritated at what the other Gaia had said, “Hey buddy, back off!” he barked, stepping in front of Mare Gaia,

“Wow, You have an attitude like Gaia” Mare Aero said,

“This is awesome!” Gaia said, bouncing up and down,

“How is this awesome?” Mirage said, “We don’t belong here!”

“But you are not there!” Pinkie Pie said to Pinkie Pie, “Let’s have a party!”

“Oooh!” Pinkie Pie responded to herself, “Let’s do what I said!”

“Pinkie Pie, we don’t have time for a party” Rainbow Dash said, staring at herself.

“Rainbow Dash is right, We need to find out how to get back to our world” Twilight said,

“I think this is Mia’s dimension” Honeydew whispered to Jax and Aqua Boom,

“You don’t say?” Aqua Boom said, tilting his head to the side and opening his eyes a little wider.

“Everypony out of my way!” A voice yelled out,

A full black pony appeared out of the crowd and looked at Mirage and Mia, trying to figure out which to speak to,

“Um, how did this happen?” She asked,

“I can explain that, wait, no I can’t.” Aqua Boom said

Suddenly, a bright flash of light blinded all ponies within five feet. The light dimmed down and Cyburst was standing there.

“Ponies, we have a prob-” Cyburst said as he looked around, “Oh, I see you’ve already figured it out.”

“Blackblood, Don’t freak out-” Mia tried,

Blackblood dove towards Cyber Burst and tackled him into the ground, immediately swinging her hoof wildly at him,

“How dare you show your face around here!” She cried,

“Oh, let me fix that, is this better?” Cyburst said as he covered his face with his hooves.

“You know what I mean!” She yelled as Mia pried her off of him,

“Actually, I don’t.” Cyburst said, tapping  his chin with his left hoof, “Blackblood, Blackblood, where have I heard that name before?”

Mirage stood in shock at the use of that name, he bared his fangs as the mare Blackblood faced him, she gave him a look of confusion.

“Oh yeah! Spitfire said I, or this dimension I, drove you out of town.” Cyburst said as he took his hooves and clapped them together, “She also said I was your coltfriend.”

Blackblood’s eyes shrank and her cheeks flushed to a shade of red,

“I thought we agreed not to tell anypony!” She whined,

“We did” A voice said,

The other Cyber Burst stepped into the crowd, his eyes narrowed at his copy,

“Oh, hello me, how are you doing?” Cyburst said, “Could you get this mare off of me? Unless of course, she likes to be on top.”

Blackblood leaped off of Cyburst and stood by the side of her coltfriend, “Shut up!” She cried,

“Your jokes aren’t funny, they are offensive” Cyber Burst said,

“Only if you take them literally.” Cyburst said.

“I did take it literally, Pig” Cyber Burst replied, “I don’t want you speaking to her”

“She jumped on me!” Cyburst said

“For good reason, she was trying to protect her name” Cyber Burst said,

“Why would you need to protect your name?” Rain Whisper asked, “Did somepony steal it?”

“Yeah, what she said?” Cyburst said, “Dear Luna that was adorable!”

“Uh, kid, it was a figure of speech” Cyber Burst said,

“A figure? Like a square?” Rain Whisper asked, “Why would you need a square when you talk?”

“The adorableness level is OVER 9000!” Cyburst said as he tried to contain his laughter.

“Ooo! Ooo! A new pony!” A high pitched voice said,

“She’s a filly too!” A raspy voice said,

“An’ she doesn’t have er’ Cutie Mark!” A southern voice said,

Three fillies stepped up in the middle of the crowd in front of Rain Whisper, one a yellow filly with a red mane, a unicorn with a white coat and a pink and purple mixed mane, and finally a orange pegasus with a purple mane.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders of Mia’s Dimension.

“aaaannnndddd it’s gone.” Aqua Boom said.

“What’s gone?” Rain Whisper asked, she was confused to why all of the ponies around her talked so weirdly.

“Nevermind Rain Whisper, it’s a mommy and daddy joke.” Cyburst said.

“She’s full of questions” Mia said,

“She’s a foal” Mirage said flatly,

“Daddy!” Rain Whisper cried, “I’m not a foal i’m a filly!”

“Oh, right” Mirage said, facing Mia, “Filly”

“ANYWAYS” Cyber Burst said, “Just stay away from her”

“That can be done.” Cyburst said, then added “as long as she doesn’t try to force me again.”

“What was that?” Cyber asked,

“Nothing you need to  worry yourself about,” Cyburst said with a mischievous grin on his face.

The ponies all traveled in one group to the edge of town, Mirage watched with tear filled eyes as the buildings passed, all of them clean and intact.

“Try not to think about it” Vinyl said, putting a hoof on his shoulder,

“There isn’t anyway NOT to think about it.” Cyburst said with his eyes looking at the ground

Vinyl glared over at him and then looked at the buildings herself, “Thanks” She said in an angry tone,

“Well, if you haven’t figured it out yet, I’ve had my share of losses too!” Cyburst shot back, “And I’m not just talking about my wife.”

“We can’t live in the past” Twilight said, “We have to find a way to remember them without hurting ourselves in the process.”

“You can’t live in the past without hurting yourself when it’s the only thing you’ve got left,” Cyburst whispered, “except for a blade and a friend that you literally, can’t get out of your head.”

“It’s no use Twilight” Mirage said, “Just leave him be”

“No, she’s right. I’ve got to stop thinking about it, the past only pisses me off.” Cyburst said.

“Where are we even going?” Honeydew asked,

“Does it really matter, we don’t know how to get back.” Aqua Boom said, “Anywhere’s a good start.”

“We’re taking the Train to Canterlot, Princess Celestia may know something about this” The other Twilight said,

Cyburst immediately sprinted to the nearest wall and punched it as hard as he could.

“Don’t ever mention that mother-humping Princess’s name again,” Cyburst spat, “Not saying the word I want to in front of Rain, but it starts with a F and ends with a K.”

“Thank you” Vinyl said,

The others looked shocked, “Why would you call the princess something like that?” Mia asked,

“She did things that nopony would ever think of doing.” Cyburst said solemnly, “Things to all of us from home.”

“Celestia would never do something like that!” Rainbow Dash said,

Cyburst automatically picked up Rainbow Dash with his magic and threw her to the other side of Ponyville.

“WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT THAT NAME!” Cyburst screamed, “SHE LET LUNA’S SOLDIERS SLAUGHTER MY MOTHER AND THEN LET HER OWN SOLDIERS RAPE AND MURDER MY WIFE AND DAUGHTER!”

“Cyburst isn’t the one to be talked back to when he’s like this.”Aqua Boom whispered to Honeydew and Jax.

Everypony stood in shock, Rainbow Dash managed to catch herself in the air and fly back, she had heard what he had said.

“THAT’S NOT THE END OF IT EITHER, OH NO!” Cyburst continued, “NOT ONLY THAT, BUT I’M NOW IMMORTAL AND CAN’T JOIN MY FAMILY IN DEATH. NOT MATTER HOW MANY TIMES I KILL MYSELF, I JUST PUT MYSELF BACK TOGETHER AGAIN.”

During that yelling, he had been punching the wall he had previously punched until it crumbled, leaving the scared ponies behind it scared and defenceless.

“YOU TAKE THE TRAIN, I’M FLYING THERE BY MYSELF!” Cyburst yelled “FIFTY PERCENT RELEASE!”

Cyburst got up on his talons and rocketed into the sky, leaving nothing but a party of shocked ponies, a demolished wall, and a small puddle of tears.

“Just... don’t mention her name” Mirage said, looking down at Rain Whisper, “She has caused us a lot of pain over the years.

And with that, the ponies, the griffin and diamond dog waited for their train to begin their journey.