God Problems
Chapter 18: Meeting Dimensional Friends
Previous ChapterNext ChapterIt had been a couple of years since Chrysalis had come through the portal. Sunset and Yulo had brought Princess Twilight over so she meet Seth and Bella, Twilight was looking over the portal “So this is the gateway to get to your friend’s dimension.”
Sunset frowned “Yes. He hasn’t met you yet and I would have brought you over sooner but the Dimensional Time Shift had to occur preventing dimensional travel.”
Yulo bounced with a grin “Let’s go!” She pushed the two through the portal and bounced in after them. Sunset and Yulo has suppressed their energy ahead of time.
Twilight stumbled before looking over herself, she growled “Really, bipedal with hooves!”
Yulo frowned “I fear you may cause a bit of a scare.” Twilight's jaw was partially visible, two fingers on each hand were nothing but bone. Her heart was clearly visible as were her intestines,.
Twilight shrugged as she looked around “It should be fine, Ponyville is a weird place. I’m sure they can handle this, plus if I’m with you two then I’m obviously a friend.”
Sunset nodded with a smile “It should be fine. Now let’s go and introduce you to Seth, Bella and Screwball.” As they headed towards this dimension’s version of Ponyville, Sunset and Yulo felt an explosion coming from the town.
Sunset frowned “There was an explosion in town, should we rush to help?’
Twilight rolled her eyes “It’s Ponyville, explosions are normal. The Crusaders create one every other week, it will be fixed within the day.”
They entered town getting some odd looks, as they approached the Library with Bella, Seth, Screwball as well as this world’s Twilight, Ben and two other humans. As they were approaching the Library, Twilight stumbled “Damn hooves.”
Sunset frowned “Yeah hooves suck.” Sunset then waved at them “This is Princess Twilight, we thought she should meet up with you. Um, who are those other two humans near Ben?”
Seth smiled “Hey Sunset! I guess you haven’t met Gwen and Kevin.” He gestures to the two humans “Sunset, Yulo, this is Gwen, Ben’s cousin and Kevin, Ben’s best friend.” He then gestures to Sunset and Yulo “Gwen, Kevin these two are Sunset, the Goddess of Harmony and Yulo, the Goddess of Chaos.”
Kevin raised an eyebrow “Why does Yulo look like Pinkie?”
Seth replied as he looked between the two mares “That’s because she is another version of her, just as Princess Twilight is another version of ours.” Princess Twilight was intrigued, as this world’s Twilight was flabbergasted.
Princess Twilight looked at the group “I’m surprised nopony here has mentioned how my body is rotting because even the light can only stop the rot so much and the dark magic keeping me alive has to be much greater to keep up with light.” Princess Twilight then poked her intestines a little bit as she giggled “That is ticklish oddly enough.”
Seth turned around as he hears retching, Rainbow’s head was to the ground. She had one hand over her mouth and the other over her stomach. Seth frowned “Well that’s…” He turned to face a strange white Void portal.
A female humanoid figure with red hair that had black streaks running through it stepped out of the portal. She shouted “SETH! THERE’s A..” She then began to stutter “Oh. H-hello? S-so, you t-three must be the ones I sensed in my sector… hi. Um… if I may, why are you here…?"
Yulo frowned “We are here to visit our friend Seth and introduce Princess Twilight to him.” Yulo’s eyes narrowed “Now who are you? I don’t trust just anyone who pops out of random portals, so explain yourself before things get ugly." She eeped like a mouse in response.
Bella frowned as a strange goo crawled over her body "Calm down Pinkie. She's a good friend. We can attest to that." Bella raised an eyebrow at herself "What are you doing?" She then frowned before shaking her head "Introducing yourself? There are better ways to do that, you know?"
Sunset raised an eyebrow “What is that goo anyway?”
Bella gestures to the goo “Hm? Oh this…” She paused as the goo spread over her body “… is Havoc.” She then pointed to to the female humanoid “A very close friend that Dama gave me.”
Dama steps closer she then gushes as she looks over Bella’s body “Oh wow. You’ve really grown haven’t you. So firm, no rejection at all. That’s amazing!”
Kevin blinked “Uh.. what’s that?”
Bella raised an eyebrow at Gwen “Gwen, you didn't tell him?”
Gwen countered “It didn’t come up.’
Kevin asked one more time “Okay, but what is it?”
Damn nodded “Allow me.” She then explained "What you see is one of my experiments. My adaptive symbiote, Havoc. He is able to merge himself to any creature. In exchange, that creature gains an increase in their natural abilities as well as the abilities he possesses. He needs to merge with another to stay alive though. Without the connection, he becomes more or less catatonic. As I said, he is an adaptive symbiote. That means… well, Seth, if you could?"
Seth looked at everyone “You all better stand back.” Everyone does as he said, watching as his body started to mutate. In ten second each of Seth’s limbs was different. Havoc meanwhile had covered Bella’s entire body.
Bella/Havoc grinned “Hit me with your best shot.”
Seth replied with his own grin “With pleasure.” He fired flames from his left hand which had become plantlike while he fired high pressure water from his right clawed, mollusc like hands. Bella adapts to the flames by encasing herself in ice, she then adapts to the water by turning her body into silver metal and bolting herself to the ground. Seth turns on his heel, slamming into her side with a huge dinosaur tail. Bella's metal body held, no worse for wear. Seth then delivered an electrically charged kick to her stomach, only for the electricity to flow off her body into the ground. Seth asked “Yeesh, what metal is that?”
Bella having her face no longer covered by Havoc, answered in unison with Dama “Vibranium.”
Seth remarked in shock “Really? Wow.”
Dama grinned "Anyway, as you can see, Havoc is very powerful. And, I haven't even mentioned his unique shape shifting."
Bella/Havoc then raises their hands up, letting Havoc flow upwards to form a pair of large intricate blades. Then, in an instant, Havoc recedes, leaving only a smiling Bella “Pretty cool huh?”
Sunset steps forward with a smirk “Let’s give your abilities a full field test, with me.”
Seth shouted “NO! Sunset that is not funny.”
Sunset frowned “I am serious about this, I am holding back considerably for this purpose.”
Seth turned to Yulo “Yulo.”
Yulo raised an eyebrow “Yes?”
Seth gave her an incredibly serious look "Not. One. Atom. Understand? I don't want one atom to be affected and I'm trusting you to make sure of it."
Yulo gave him a serious look. “You are a friend. I will agree to your request but Seth you need to remember who Sunset and I are. We are quite capable of simply pulling the plug on reality, an Army of Celestialsapiens would not be able to stop us. We are more than capable of ending all things and that deserves a little respect surely.”
Ben shouted “What?!” Before Gwen shushed him.
Seth frowned "I do respect your power. That is why I have to be sure. She's my best friend. But, if you're absolutely sure, go ahead."
Sunset nodded before turning to Bella “Where should we start, planet level or somewhere lower?”
Bella flinched at the question "Wow, never thought I'd get asked something like that.” She then thought for a moment before answering “Let's go for… why not? Continent level?"
Sunset nodded “Very well.” She then tapped Bella with her finger. Bella's eyes widened as she is sent flying a little.
Bella shouted “A little warning next time!” A sliver of Havoc covering her chest where Sunset tapped her, a cracked crystal receding away. Bella said "Sheesh, diamond? You really know your stuff." She then looked to Sunset as Havoc covered her whole body “There. Now we are ready.”
Sunset rolled her eyes “If you were in a real fight, they might not give you that much time. I was not serious but many are and would move much faster than that, let’s step up to multi-continent shall we?” Sunset swung her finger again at Bella. Havoc then changed their body to a strange grayish, almost stone like metal. As Sunsets finger struck her blocking arms, a massive *CLANG!* rang out over Ponyville.
Bella smiled happily "Thank you, Uru. I don't think I felt that."
Seth blinked “Wait, Uru too? Wow, she really can become anything."
Screwy turned to him "What's Uru?"
Seth responded "Very powerful substance, very durable, super good magical conductor." Both Twilight's let out a huge barrage of questions as Seth continued to watch the fight. Yulo provided both with a huge lump of Uru to distract them.
Sunset frowned “Okay, let’s jump to crust level then planet level if you can handle that.” She delivered another powerful poke. Bella’s arms were pushed back against her chest but other than that, she was no worse for wear.
Bella frowned "Okay, definitely felt that one."
Sunset frowned “Are you sure you want to go to the next level up?”
Bella nodded slamming arms together "Yeah, I think I can take it.” Sunset nodded before delivering another poke. Bella says, slamming her arms together. Sunset nods before delivering another poke. As she struck, there strangely wasn't another loud clang. Instead, Bella's body began to glow where Sunset’s finger rested. Bella smirked “Bingo”
Sunset removed her finger “Hmm, interesting.”
Bella smirked “Your move.”
Sunset frowned “Next comes Large Planet, Star then Solar System.” She then delivers an even mightier poke. Like before, no sound came from the attack, the spot on Bella’s where Sunset struck only glowing orange. Bella smirked before moving to Sunset’s left. Sunset smirked “You absorbed my attack didn’t you? Clever. But…” Multiple Sunset’s walked out of every shadow “I had to do something to lower my power enough, so I created duplicates and hid them.”
Bella's face scrunched up at Sunset’s words "Hmmm. Understandable. And yes. We reconfigured our armour to absorb kinetic energy and we were going to blast it back, hence why we moved.” They both shouted “Wait, idea!” They suddenly say, their armour skin changing to a reflective black colour. Bella smiled "There. Now try." Bella says, holding their arms up again. Sunset slams down with her finger. As her finger makes contact with Bella, orange light seems to ripple from the spot for a second before stopping… then it reversed. Coming back to the spot where Bella was struck… and sending a shot of kinetic energy straight at Sunset.
Sunset blocked the attack with her finger, she frowned “Alright, next level up.” Sunset delivers a mighty strike with her finger. Again the force was reflected back, washing over her like a breeze.
Bella grinned "This is much more fun than I anticipated. Let's see if I can kick it up a notch…"Their skin then began to change again. This time becoming completely silver, their skin glowing with strange energy.
Bella smirked as she got into a defensive position “Let's see if this works." Sunset delivers another much more powerful poke. Strangely, Sunset’s finger just keeps moving, sinking into Bella's arm.
Sunset frowned.“So you turned your arm into energy?”
Bella smirked "Close but no. My skin has been imbued with power cosmic, allowing it to gain… interesting properties. Such as a contact portal to a pocket dimension. You touch me, you sink."
Sunset shook her head “Be careful with that power, it allows you to know everything and trying to filter what you want out of infinity is very difficult. Also there are ways around that defense.” Sunset’s finger glowed with harmonic energy as she struck.
Bella yelled as stepped back “Agh!” She then began to sway on her feet “Ooh. Uhh. I see what you mean." She held her head as she returned to normal "Ouch. That hurt."
Bella got a thoughtful look on her face, Seth called out to her "Bella… what are you thinking…?"
Bella said to Seth "Don't worry, I have an idea." She held up her fist in front of her face, soon Sunset felt the increase of power which she had to admit was quite impressive.
Seth yelled "Bella, what are you doing?!"
Bella closed her eyes in concentration "It's ok! We got this." Sunset sighed as Bella’s eyes shot open, purple light emanating from behind their hand. Bella cheered "Hah! We did it! Universal singularity contained!"
Sunset rolled her eyes.“I think we should stop here before Bella decides to absorb the universe. Containing a Universal Singularity if it went wrong would have destroyed this universe and heavily damaged every universe around it.”
Bella shrugged "Hey! It's only a partial fragment! Plus, if one infinity stone can get destroyed, a piece of one can be replicated."
Seth shouted at her "Infinity stone?! Bella, no offense but WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?! YOU REPLICATED AN INFINITY STONE?! WHY?! Not to mention, the most dangerous one too!"
Bella looked down at the floor as Havoc started to recede "Sorry, I want to test our powers." She then suddenly yells “Ow!”
Seth runs up to her “Now what?” He sees the power stone replica still in her hand “Bella...?”
Bella concentrating on her hand apologises “Sorry, it’s just being a little difficult to undo. Gimme a sec.”
Yulo raised her hand “It would be unwise to undo it, if you made any mistake making it, if you were even a billionth of a percent off you could have caused a snowball effect that would have caused multiversal damage. Trying to undo it would do the same if you're not really careful and to be honest you may have drawn the attention of a few major gods already who are not exactly keen on what you have already done.”
Bella looks at Sunset with fear."I'm sorry, I just wanted to test myself. I didn't… I…" Bella then begins to tear up. "I'm sorry."
Sunset and Yulo give Bella a hug “Don’t worry, we will placate the other gods but you all should lay low for a while. Don’t want a major god battle in our neighbourhood.”
Seth sighed “Well, this sure has been an interesting day.” Seth jumped as he heard a *Bang!* Whosawhat?!" He turned around to see both Twilight’s holding the glowing piece of Uru while covered in soot. Seth deadpanned “What did you do?”
Seth’s Twilight coughed "We… don't know. We were just checking what kind of enchantments we could put on this stuff when I slipped up and the bam. The thing popped and made a bunch of smoke.”
Pricness Twilight frowned "I think we may have found an enchantment that doesn't mix with it. Although, I have no idea what it was."
Yulo smirked “So Seth, how’s things with Screwball. Got a wedding planned out yet?”
Seth’s face lit up like a Christmas tree "Hztbbctjnf. Pinkie! Enough with that! *Poof!* Poof?" Seth looked around only to see no sign of Screwball, he exclaimed "Oh, great. Now look what you did!" He looked around before walking away from the Library, pausing only to throw a plant bomb at Pinkie that did nothing. He then continued to walk.
Yulo rubbed her head “I forgot that it hasn’t been as long for him as it has been for us, we had a Dimensional Time Shift that happens every so often to stabilise the dimensional boundary, and locked us out from dimensional travel for two years. Not that much time passed here.”
Seth just ignored her and kept walking… he then paused as everyone felt and heard deep rumbling. He then turned on his heel and started walking back.
A glowing blue man wearing no clothes, an older portly man wearing a suit and bowler hat and finally the final figure was a glowing yellow human that seemed to switch between male and female every time you looked at him/her. The blue man introduced himself first “I am Dr Manhattan, it's a pleasure to meet so many new faces.”
The older man bowed “I am The Presence, it’s been a while since I left my corner of the Multiverse.”
The final figure smiled “I am the One Above All.”
Seth was slightly taken aback "Hoookay. This is a first. Hello, all of you. I'm guessing we have something to talk about?"
Dr Manhattan started “Yes, the Displaced as you are called are often an object of major concern. Your powers are no joke and it does put all of us on edge, we more or less maintain order across the infinite multiverse. Creating infinity stones while not forbidden is very concerning, you can make universes with those. That power is very dangerous.”
Bella stepped forward “Listen. I’m sorry. It was my fault. I didn’t think. I…” Bella starts tearing up again "I just wanted to see w-what I can d-do. I… I've even deformed the infinity stone. See?" Bella raises her hand, no part of Havoc on it. “It’s gone a-and I won’t do it again.” She hung her head.
Sunset stepped forward “I have a plan to resolve this issue, I will take this universe into the group as the new universe 13. I will appoint a God of Destruction and a God of Creation to this universe, I even have two candidates in mind. I am not sure about who the Angel should be yet however.”
Yulo stepped forward nodding to Sunset, she placed her hand on Seth’s head “Destruction and Screwball will be Creation.”
The Presence nodded “Very well, we will allow this. As long as a god is watching over this plain we will not intervene.”
Seth gasped, Sunset and Yulo noticed that the power he took from Beerus was increasing steadily. Seth was dumbfounded as the three other gods leave. Seth turned to them "Okay. Question…… WHY?!?! You made ME a god of destruction?! Why?!?!?!?!"
Yulo stepped forward. “You are the best candidate, you possess incredible power yet are not arrogant or cocky because of it. We know you will take the task seriously and we made Screwball the Goddess of Creation for three reasons, first she is filled with chaotic energy perfect for creation, second you two would miss each other if you had to be gone for long periods of time and third now you will linked in another way as well.”
As Seth was coming to terms with all of this, Screwball appeared beside him holding a purple staff with a planet like object that constantly shifted colours and a soft yellow ring floated above the planet. She looked at him confused “Uhh, Seth. Did you give me this?” She then stuttered slightly “I was just… uhh… it just fell on my head out of nowhere.”
Seth muttered “Yeah... it looks like the two of us have becomes gods?”
Screwball’s eyes become literally the size of her head each “Huh?”
Seth groaned “Ugh. Just..” he then turned to Yulo “Yulo! If you could?”
Yulo nodded “Simply put, you are now the head gods of your universe. Seth’s purpose as God of Destruction is to destroy planets with no life on them while your job as God of Creation is to create planets that grow prosperous and powerful forms of life.”
Screwy's eyes widen at Yulo's words. "W…wow. That… that's… oh dear."
Screwy then faints. I catch her before she falls to far "Yeah, should have expected that. In fact, I'm surprised I'm still conscious."
Sunset stepped forward “My advice for the both of you is to start small and slowly work your way up, now while there tends to be one god of Destruction there are often multiple Supreme Kais with one at the top of the Hierarchy.”
Seth asked “What do you mean?”
Yulo frowned “The God of Destruction tends to have more individual power than one Supreme Kai, thus to balance that out there are multiple Supreme Kais to the one God of Destruction. Now during our long absence it was decided to create a race to be Supreme Kais but we are changing that now.”
Seth frowned as he got Screwy comfortable on the ground “So you’re saying I need to chose others to be my Supreme Kais.”
Sunset shook her head “No, that is the job of Head Supreme Kai. It is not incredibly pressing right now, that will come in time. You have all of eternity to set up the right system but I do expect you to make a solid effort.”
Seth frowned deep in thought “I see.” He then held his head high “I promise to do my best.”
Yulo nodded with a smile “We know you will. We will have you attend a God of Destruction meeting soonish, more just to introduce yourselves. Some tend to be snobbish but we are working on that, even if we have to replace some.”
Seth asked "Hey, that reminds me. How is Beerus doing? Is he being nicer? If not, I'll have to punch him."
Sunset frowned “In truth he has been incredibly quiet, no-one, not even his brother have heard heads or tails of him. Whis can’t even find him but we do know that he has been destroying planets. I feel he has become more devoted but it worries everyone.”
Seth frowned "Hmmm… Maybe I should go talk to him? See what's going on?"
Yulo shook her head with a sigh “Impossible I’m afraid, even with our most detailed scans. We can’t find him, if he is capable of hiding from even us then even with your link finding him will be impossible. Hiding that much power would require something truly special and we don’t have a clue on what that is.”
Seth suggested his hand on his chin "Hmm. I see. Maybe instead of finding him, I can just use our link to talk, see why he is acting so strange. Maybe convince him to tell me where and why he is hiding."
Sunset grimaced. “We did something like that, using the link of the Supreme Kai’s to track or communicate with him has proven fruitless. It vanishes somewhere along the line, whatever he has done or wherever he has gone has him isolated that nothing gets in or out other than him.
Seth asked "Alright. If you are able to find him, tell him I want to talk. Okay?"
Sunset sighed "We do have a suspicion, he went to the realm of Null but that would be very dangerous. It’s a place that even Yulo and I would not enter lightly. All transmission dies trying to go in there, simply put it’s not a place that just anyone can enter lightly. One enters there to reflect on themselves and in time master themselves. If you are not there for that it will erase you from existence, even Yulo and I can maybe resist it for a minute with all of our power.”
Seth paled and shivered, he then shouted "Hrragh! There has to be something!" swiping his hand through the air. Doing so created a ball of red energy that flew into a nearby mountain, wiping it off the face of the world. Seth cried out “Holy!”He then stared at his hand “Ok. Was not expecting that.”
Yulo frowned “What do you mean?”
Seth frowned "I…well. I knew I was strong but it's been very hard for me to use my more basic power. Specifically my energy manipulation. I can easily mutate myself from things I absorb but with just energy, I keep struggling to release it, like it's stuck to me and doesn't want to let go. With that blast just now, I didn't even notice it until I saw it flying through the air. I didn't need to put my usual amount of effort into sending it, it just went. I'll need to get used to that."
Princess Twilight frowned “I do need to return to my castle. I shouldn’t be away too long.”
Sunset frowned “That is a good point” she then waved goodbye “I guess we’ll see you at the meeting Seth, Screwball?”
Yulo waved “Farewell.” All three of them disappeared in a bright flash of light, after they returned Sunset smiled as she and Yulo took a long nap.
Author's Note
Another crossover chapter with Crazy Falcon. I hope you enjoyed it.
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