Out of sight. In your mind.

(Far far away)

«Second, schedule?»

"Proceeding as planned, First. The glop is in the shoe."

«Excellent. The furball will eat the snowman and the melting shall commence.»
Why does First have to use this foolish code? No one monitors these frequencies. Melting… ah! Phase three. That's what that meant. Second thought as he snuck through the tunnel he was in.

"When shall… the furball arrive?" Second asked, remembering the codewords.

«Soon. And when they do, everything will fall into place. Vrepit sa, Second.»

"Vrepit sa, First."

A few days after Sarah's arrival, I was resting in my room, just simply sleeping the night away. I awoke suddenly, a feeling of wrongness settling over me. Looking around my room, I could see nothing amiss.
What was that? I thought to myself before I drifted off again, there must have been nothing.

As I slept, I didn't notice the piece of string dangling down from the roof. It eventually settled on the side of my head. My tail twitched, swatting the string away. As I settled on my bed, I slept away, peacefully.

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Waking up, I settled into my routine.

Check on the guards, see how drill is.

Check on day court, make sure there aren't any snobs arounds.

Have a sparring match with someone.

I arrived at the royal dueling platform, just in time to catch a Walker flying through the air.

"Whoa. You okay?" I asked. The guard smiled at me, missing a touch. He fell to the ground when I let him go. Looking forward, I saw Chrysalis with a grey marble flail in her hands. "Someone's busy. You're not causing trouble, are you?" I teased as I approached the ring.

"Who, me? I would never." Chrysalis jested in response. "Besides, I was going easy on him, I'm only using the gray from the ground, nothing else." Chrysalis said as the guard she knocked out was picked up by two others.

"The ball shaped dent in that guard's face makes me wonder about just how easy you are going." I commented as I stepped into the ring. As I saw Chrysalis standing in front of me with her gray flail, the image of her walking around on four legs with a muzzle made me pause.

"Diego? Something wrong?" Chrysalis asked me.

"Oh, no. Nothing. Just thinking about what Sarah said."

"Sarah. What did she say?" Chrysalis asked, having heard about the interdimensional visitors.

"She described what her world was like, a little. It just crossed my mind." I said. Chrysalis looked at me thoughtfully.

"Are you sure you are okay?" She asked.

"Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine." I answered. Chrysalis didn't seem convinced.

"Do you miss it? Your home?" She asked.

"Not really. I hardly ever think about it. Besides, this is my home now." I said, looking at the castle behind us. Chrysalis smiled as I looked back at her. She drew some energy from a Quintessence Root in her pocket before reforming her flail into a battle axe.

"An axe? I didn't think that was your style." I commented as I drew my Bayard, forming my energy shield.

"What can I say? I'm a Changeling. We're open to changing things around." Chrysalis replied as she took a battle stance with her axe low.

"Then let's see how you handle it." I said, shield ready. Chrysalis charged at me, swinging her axe at my barrier. The marble head shattered against the solid quintessence.

Chrysalis wasn't phased, absorbing some colour off of the partially white ground. She formed the gray into two curved swords, attacking my shield vigorously. Her weapons impacted my shield multiple times, barely even affecting me.
Huh. Surprised her weapons haven't broken ye-

Warning: There is an illusion in effect. Chrysalis is sneaking behind you.
That explains it. I thought as I bashed forward, shattering the illusion in front of me. Whipping my shield around, I forced Chrysalis away, unveiling her.

Chrysalis absorbed some blue and red colour from the coloured candles surrounding the ring. She then struck the ground, sending a wave of blue crystals out from the ground beneath me. I jumped in the air, dodging the attack as I soared upwards. My shield faded as my Bayard morphed, becoming my knuckle sword. I raised my sword as I came down towards Chrysalis. Chrysalis sent a huge blast of fire at me. I pushed myself out of the way with a blast from my free hand, landing in front of Chrysalis. I charged at her with my blade drawn back.

Chrysalis dodged to the side, absorbing all the colour she could from the surrounding area. She then sent several huge pillars of earth towards me.
Bad move, your majesty. Now you don't have anything to reload from.

I formed my Altean glaive, deciding to go for reach. With deft swipes and thrusts, I cut through all the pillars of earth and stone. Chrysalis smirked. “Time for my final move, I have wanted to test this one.” Chrysalis placed her hand on the ground. It glowed blue as the air around me started to grow cold. Her hand then started glowing a deep red.
Warning: I am detecting immense heat. If the heat is released, the temperature variance will cause a compression shockwave. Chrysalis has a 87% probability of being critically injured. The guards spectating have a 99.5% probability of being critically injured and a 56% of being killed.

"CHRYSALIS!" I shouted, instantly forming my energy whip and yanking Chrysalis to me, slamming her into the ground. The red in Chrysalis's hand faded as the guards outside the ring shivered at the sudden cold.

"Ow, what was that for?" Chrysalis asked as she pushed herself up. I put my Bayard away as I looked her in the eye.

"YOU WERE ABOUT TO CAUSE AN EXPLOSION, THAT'S WHAT! THINK CHRYSALIS!" I shouted, pointing at my head. "IF I HADN'T STOPPED YOU, YOU WOULD HAVE JUST BLOWN YOURSELF UP! NOT TO MENTION EVERYONE AROUND THE RING!" Chrysalis looked at me with shock. "EXACTLY! NOT ONLY COULD YOU HAVE PUT YOURSELF IN THE HOSPITAL, YOU COULD HAVE KILLED THE PEOPLE AROUND THE RING TOO!" I shouted furiously. "JUST BECAUSE THIS IS A FIGHT DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD LOSE YOUR HEAD!" I continued, absolutely livid at Chrysalis's stupidity. I stormed off, walking out of the ring and into the castle.
How could she be so stupid?! Setting off a temperature bomb that close to a group of people?! And with herself inside of it?! That's suicide!

"Hrah! Hah. What's next on my routine?" I asked myself.

Answer: The next item on your routine is: Check up-
Warning: Dimensional energy has been detected. There is a Token nearby.
What? Where?

Response: Ten metres in front of you, on your left. Voltron responded. Walking further into the hallway, I noticed something sitting on the ground. It looked like a purple ball with a black line through the middle with pink bumps on top of it. Walking over to it, I picked it up.

“Displaced of the multiverse, I am Mewthree. I’ve come seeking a good sparr, for I need the experience points to survive my world, however I can settle for friendship if that is your reasoning. In order to summon me, you must speak ‘Mewthree, I choose you’ in a similar fashion to let your pokemon out. Also know that this token serves not only as a means of capturing, but also as an anchor point.” A voice echoed from the Masterball.
Mewthree? Never heard of that. Huh. But, I could definitely use someone to talk to after that fiasco. I thought to myself, holding up the ball.

"Mewthree, I choose you!" I called out. The ball opened up in a brilliant flash, causing a beam of light to shoot out of the ball and onto the ground. As the light cleared, I saw a figure fade into existence, revealing a mewtwo-esque creature. While it had the same colored belly as the original Mewtwo, his hands were a lot more human shaped, although slightly tipped like that of claws.

His skin though, was a dark shade of purple. Along his shoulders and his upper chest, were black scars, although I don’t know what caused them. In the middle of his forehead, was a purple onyx gem.

“..Hmm, I’m kind of glad that actually worked..” Mewthree mentally spoke out with a sigh of relief.

"Hello. You must be Mewthree." I greeted, stepping forward. I noticed he was a foot taller than me. I held my hand out to the being.

“Correct.” Mewthree said as he reached out to shake my hand. As I shook his hand, I heard running footsteps behind me. Turning around, I saw Chrysalis coming towards us.

"Diego, I- who are you?" Chrysalis asked, seeing Mewthree.

“...Interesting. I half expected ponies to be four legged here. Good to know the multiverse theory is a thing.“ Mewthree said in minor amusement. Chrysalis looked at me with confusion.

"Diego, who is this?" She asked.

"His name is Mewthree. He's a Displaced, like Sarah. Now, what do you want?" I demanded. Chrysalis looked downtrodden at my tone.

"I… I came to apologize. What I did was reckless. Please forgive me." She bowed her head to me. I sighed as I stepped up to her.

"I forgive you, your majesty. We all make mistakes. I've made my fair share." I said. Chrysalis smiled at me. A loud beeping sound suddenly filled the hallway, causing Chrysalis to cringe.

"What is that?!" She exclaimed in pain. I looked down to see the Masterball shaking in my hand.

Warning: An unknown entity is crossing into our reality through Mewthree's Token!

"Mewthree, were you expecting guests?" I asked as I dropped the ball.

“No. Only I can use the ball...” Mewthree said in worry as he stared down at his token. Flames suddenly started spewing out the sides of the ball as it shook on the floor. With a loud crack, the ball opened, fire bursting out of it. The fire solidified into a humanoid form.

The flaming monster stood hunched, not a trace of flesh on its body. Only flames and bone. On its skull, two horns curved out. It's fingers ended in long bone claws. The clothes it wore seemed to bubble and hiss like magma. Metal spikes adorned it's shoulders, arms and back.

Over its shoulder and down its hip, a long chain was wrapped around its form. In its left hand was a large, shotgun-like weapon. It held nothing in its right hand. It panted as it looked at all of us. A group of guards, responding to the loud bang of the creature's entrance, rounded a corner. They all froze at the sight before them. The beast roared.

"BORN TO BE WILD!" The beast pointed its weapon at the group.

"No!" I exclaimed, jumping in front of the beast. It fired, sending a fireball straight at the knights. I intercepted the shot, getting hit in the shoulder and sent crashing into a wall.
Agh. Drat, that thing packs a punch. If anyone else takes a hit, they'll be dead. I thought as I wrenched myself out of the wall.

"BORN TO BE WILD!" The beast roared again in anger. I charged forward with my energised staff in hand, spinning it as I ran at the beast. It fired at me again. I deflected the shot with my staff, sending it out a wall.

"Nice try, but I'm not letting you hurt anyone." I declared as I formed my Armour-claws. "Now, time to take out the trash!" Grabbing the beast with my claws, I spun around and threw it out of the hole it's blast made, sending it flying into the distance. I leapt after it, ready for a fight.

“Well now, this went from zero to a hundred real quick.” Mewthree said as he took off after me.

Author's Note

Well aren't I stupid. I almost forgot to publish this. Oh well, better late than never.