Riki and Liz's Grand Adventure!

I Dream of... Luna?

“Mister, can you help me find my mom?”

I look down at the kid, “What?”

“My mom, I need to find her,” the kid said, squatting in the snow and begins to cry.

I hate to see kids cry, especially a kid version of me, “Oi, I’ll help you find my-your mom. And stop calling me ‘Mister,” I said, picking him up and brushing off the snow, “My name is Ricochet, but you can call me Riki for short.”

“Your name is Ricochet too, and I thought I was the only one with a weird name!” Ricochet said with a smile, “Mr. Riki, you can call me Ricochet, but you can’t call me Riki because only my mom can.”

I chuckled a bit, remembering all the times I said that. I squatted down to see him at eye level, “So, Ricochet, how did you get separated from your mom?”

Ricochet shifts his weight and gets a sorrowful look, “A big scary monster came after us. That’s how we got separated.”

“A monster?” I said.

“Hey, Mr. Riki?” asked Ricochet,

“Yes,”

“Why aren’t you wearing any pants?”

“Oh, umm... I woke up without any,” I said sheepishly, rubbing the back of my head.

“Mr. Riki, you know doing drugs is bad,” Ricochet said, swinging his arms back and forth, “My mom told me that.”

“I know,” I chuckled. “...Come on, let’s go find your mom.”

“Otay!” he exclaimed, running off.

“Oi, wait up!” I said, running after him, “Fuck, is this how Liz and the others feel when I run off… Nah.”

Damn, it feels like we have been walking for hours. It’s just snow, snow, and a dead tree. Ricochet, or little me is having the time of this life. He’s just playing in the snow, running ahead of me. I brushed the falling snow off my head and pulled up my hood, “Oi, Ricochet, this might sound weird, but were you the voice in my head?” I asked, “It has been bugging me.”

Ricochet runs towards me and almost trips in the process. He tilts his head a few times, “Did it sound like me?”

“No… it’s just that… Well…” I groan, rubbing my temples, “When the voice was in my head, I heard it but didn’t really hear it?”

“Otay?” Ricochet said with a questionable look, “Are you sure you’re not on drugs?”

“Oi, it’s hard to explain!” I yelled, “All I know is the voice felt rough.”

“Mr. Riki, can I ask you something?”

“Go ahead,”

“Why are you here?”

I raised my eyebrow, “What?”

“Why are you here in this place? Are you looking for something…someone?”

“I don’t know, Kid,” I said with a sigh, come a complete stop, “Why are you here?”

“What do you mean?” Ricochet said in a flat tone. “We always like to walk in the snow with mom.”

“You know who I am!?” I said shockingly,

Ricochet turns and gives me a pouty face, “I’m six, not stupid.”

I started to rub the back of my head, “Then you should know that-” I was cut off by the ground shaking violently. “What the fuck, an earthquake!?” I shouted, trying to keep my balance.

“I-It’s coming, Mr. R-Riki!” Ricochet trembled, grabbing my hand, “We need to go now before it gets us!”

“What's coming?”

“The-”

Something erupts from the ground, kicking up a ton of snow. It lands right in front of us, shaking the ground again. I quickly picked up Ricochet and put him under my arm. When the snow finally settles, I see a huge 30 feet tall shadowy blob looms over us. Its four soulless white eyes were the only things on its pitch black body. I slowly take a few steps back, “That’s a big ass-”

“Mr. Riki, run!” Ricochet shouted, pulling my hair away from the monster, “Run, like a bunch of swans is chasing you!”

“Don’t bring up those demons!” I shouted back, running away. I look back to see something shocking. The weird thing begins to disgustingly grow four legs with sharp claws at the end. “That is...some bullshit,”

It starts to chase after us, but the monster trips over its newly formed legs. After a while, it got used to walking and begins to pick up speed. I can’t keep running in this condition, and all the snow it’s kicking up is not in my favor. Ricochet wiggles out from under my arm and climbs onto my shoulders. Almost making me fall over, “Oi, what are you doing?”

“Mr. Riki, doge to the right!” he yelled, pulling my hair in the same direction. I dodged, making the monster miss its swiping attack. “Mr. Riki, go down that hill!”

“What hil-Ahhhhhh!” I screamed, plummeting down the big snowy hill. I curse my heart on the way down, “Fuck, shit, damn, bollocks, ass, crap!” Landing on my face hard and then groaning, I feel Ricochet trying to pick me up. I slowly got up and wiped the snow off my face, “Oi, you good?”

“I’m fine, Mr. Riki,” Ricochet answered, pushing the snow off. He then grabs my hand, “But we need to keep going, look!”

I look behind me to see the monster making its way down. I pick up Ricochet, “We need to hide,” I said, running off, “Know any places in this snow covered hell?”

“Just one place,”

“Really?”

“Over there,” Ricochet said happily, “A big spooky dark cave!”

Wait, what the!? Actually, I don’t care if a spooky cave came out of nowhere. “Fuckin’ dreams are bullshit!” I just need to get the kid me safe. Looking back at the monster, “How good is your aim?”

“Pretty good. Why?”

I stopped dead in my tracks and quickly bent down. I start to make about 20 snowballs, “Okay, you ready?” I said, handing Ricochet a few snowballs.

He nodded and began to aim, “Go for the eyes, right?”

“Yeah,”

As the monster gets close, Ricochet chucks the snowballs at its eyes. He missed the first couple of shots, but he hit one of the eyes. “Mr. Riki, get moving!” he yelled, hitting another eye.

I give Ricochet the rest of the snowballs and begin to run away. He keeps hurtling the snowballs at the monster’s eyes. The beast starts to run uncontrollably with only one eye open. With the final two snowballs, Ricochet tosses them and hits the last eyes. The monster stops and rises on its back legs. It rubs its eyes vigorously, trying to get the snow out. Taking this opportunity, I run full speed to the cave.

< Nobody’s Pov>
Ricochet and Riki finally made it to the entrance of the cave. Riki places Ricochet down and gives him a few pats on the head, “Oi, listen up. I’m going to go and distract it, you stay here.”

“What! No, that thing is big and scary!” Ricochet pleated, pulling on Riki’s arm. “Just stay here!”

“Can’t, what if it comes in here?” Riki said, walking away, “I’ll be back, so stay here and keep your head down, Okay?”

“Just like what mom said,” Ricochet muttered with a sad look, going behind a rock. “I wish I was stronger.”

Riki stops at the entrance, taking a few deep breaths to keep himself from blowing up. He stares straight ahead at the monster making its way to the cave. Riki waves his hands wildly while running away. “Oi, monster fuck!”. The beast slid into the snow, almost crashing into the cave. It launches at Riki, but he dodges rolls at the last second. “I’ll be back, Ricochet!” Riki yelled.

In the cave, Ricochet peeked over the rock. He sees Riki and the monster getting farther and farther away. Ricochet starts to walk out but stops when he hears something in the cave. It feels like it’s calling him. He slowly turns around, “H-hey, the name is Ricochet,” he stuttered, walking deeper into the cave. “What’s your name!?”

“Oh, shit!” Riki shouted. He dives into the snow, barely dodging the monster’s slashing attack. It crashes face first into the ground, making winds push Riki forward. He tries to get up, but his cold and numb feet are giving him trouble. “Dreams are bullshit. Why can’t I just dream up pants and shoes!” Riki shouted, getting up as fast as possible. But he feels something wrap around his right ankle, pulling him back down in the snow.

He looks at his ankle to see a black tentacle wrapped around it. The monster drags Riki towards itself, he tries to kick off the tentacle a few times, but it doesn’t work. As the monster starts to stay on its hind legs, its tentacle lifts Riki upside down above its head. It stares at him with its four eyes, blinking at different times. Riki took this moment to punch the monster in one of its eyes as hard as he could.

But it kind of backfired.

It made the monster stumbled back, causing it to swing Riki around. “Oooohhh, fuuuuuck!” Riki screamed. He reaches up to his ankle and pulls on the tentacle, slowly releasing his ankle. “Come on! Come on!”. The monster stops stumbling to see Riki getting his foot free, “Woohoo!” he exclaimed, throwing his arms up in victory. Then he realized that he was falling, “OH NO!”.

Falling and landing on the monster’s face. Riki quickly delivers two strong punches to the eyes on the right side. The monster whips its head back in pain, throwing Riki on its back, and begins to slide down. As Riki gets closer to the bottom, he prepares himself to jump off.

“Okay, here goes nothing,” Riki said, jumping off the back.

As he does, three big bumps appear on the monster’s back. Then tentacles disgustingly burst out of the bumps, dripping black ooze.

Before Riki ever touches the snowy ground. The newly made tentacles swiftly wrap around Riki’s body, pulling him back. The monster moves Riki in front of its face. It slowly constricts Riki, making sure not to break him into two. Riki tries to break out with all his might, but it’s getting him nowhere. “I don’t know how this can get any worse!” Riki snapped.

It gets worse.

The monster’s lower face starts to stretch and tear. Riki's eyes widened when a mouth with a whiplike tongue formed. “This is some fuck,” Riki muttered, “At least I could find out if I died in a dream, I died in real life.” The monster dangles Riki over its mouth and lowers him in. Riki closed his eyes, preparing to get bit in half.

Out of nowhere, a blue beam of magic blasts through the tentacles, dropping Riki face first into the snow. The tentacles around him begin to dissolve away, “What the hell?” Riki questioned, rubbing his head. He sees the monster roar in pain as another magic blast hits it square in the face, slowly disintegrating it away.

“And here I thought it would put up a fight,” said a calming voice.

Riki turns to see Princess Luna. “P-Princess Luna!? Why are you here!? How are you here!?” he said, sounding very confused. “Wait, are you the real Princess or a dream?” Riki slowly shuffled his way up to Luna and poked her in the face.

“Of course, I’m real!” she yelled, slapping Riki’s hand away, “It is my duty as the princess of the night to step into ponies’ dreams.”

“Oi, first you don’t have to yell, and second I’m not a pony!” he shouted back. Riki sees that Luna’s eyes shift downward at his lower body. “Can you not!” He quickly covered himself as best as he could.

She rolled her eyes, “I really don’t see the problem here. You know we ponies rarely wear anything.” Luna said, walking next to Riki, bumping him with her flank.

“Yeah, I have been meaning to ask about that….” Riki said, running his hand through his hair. “…So, how do you ponies keep your... ‘stuff’ from being seen?” Luna just stared at Riki with a blank face. He quickly tries to think of something to say. “It’s just a question! You guys just don’t wear pants and…and… Wait, are you laughing?” Riki said, pointing at the snickering pony. “Damn it, I can’t deal with this awkward shit! I’m going!” He begins to storm off to somewhere.

Luna couldn’t contain her laughter anymore, “Pfffttt, hahaha! Sorry, but I wa-I wasn’t expecting you to say that, hahaha!” She flies in front of Riki, stopping him in as tracks. Luna sees his red cheeks and something else, “Oh my moon, you have freckles.” she said in shock, then poking Riki’s freckled cheeks. “Have you always had freckles or…”

Riki bends down and picks up some snow, rubbing it on his cheeks to cool off. After that, his freckles and flushed cheeks fade away. Riki starts to draw in the snow, “Yes…sort of,” he muttered to Luna, try not to make eye contact, “My freckles are weird. They only appear when I blush or get super embarrassed.”

“That is weird,”

“You will not tell anyone, anypony, or anything about it! There are only a few people who-”

A black tentacle comes crashing down at them, but Riki is fast enough to push Luna out of them away. Both turned to where the attack came from, seeing the monster slowly rise out of the snow.

“What in Tartarus? I thought I got rid of it!” Luna said with a surprised look.

“Oi, I need to ask you something,” Riki said, getting up, “What the hell is that thing!?”

“It’s a nightmare, a strong one.” she said, flapping her wings, “I’ll try to banish it again, stay here.” She flies towards the nightmare with amazing speed.

“Wait!” Riki shouted at Luna, but it was too late.

Luna flies straight at the nightmare, firing a magic beam at it. But she was shocked to see her attack blocked by the monster’s tentacles. Then the tentacles start to chase her around. She dodged and blasted the tentacles around her and managed to get a few shots off the nightmare's back and face, but it wasn’t fazed.

“Dammit, why is my magic barely doing anything to this beast?” Luna asked herself, “Is Riki’s magic resistance affecting me, or is this nightmare more than it seems?” Before she can think of what to do next, a tentacle wraps around her back hoof. “What!?” The monster swings the princess of the night throughout the sky like a rag doll. It then hurls her down to the ground with great force. Luna closed her eyes and braced for impact.

“Luna!” Riki shouted, diving to catch her at the very last second. But instead of Luna falling into Riki’s arms, she lands on top of him. “Gyaaa! Why did you land in my back!?”

“It’s not my fault!” Luna yelled at Riki, rolling and sitting on his back.

“If I feel this when I wake up, I’m kicking your ass!” he yelled back.

“Do you know who you’re talking to!?”

“A heavy ass pony!”

Luna rolled her eyes and muttered, “Have you seen Tia’s.”

“Who? Wait, I don’t care. Get off me!” Riki said as calmly as possible, flailing under Luna’s butt.

The two continue to argue with each other. Unbeknownst to them, the nightmare looms over them. It begins to open its mouth, starting to charge a beam. The bright light in its mouth gets Riki and Luna to stop fighting.

“Well, I forgot all about you, shit,” Riki said blankly.

“Yeah, same,” Luna said with a blank expression too.

As the beam gets brighter and bigger, the two finally decide it’s time to get out of the way. But when they tried to, they couldn’t move an inch. Looking down, the snow around them has turned into black goo.

“Luna, do something!” Riki said worryingly, trying to pull himself free. Riki sees her blasting the goo already with a steady beam, slowly getting rid of it. “Hurry up, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up! Luna, hurry up!”

The monster finished charging its attack. Riki finally managed to pull his arms free. He shifts over in front of Luna to protect her, his arms out in front. “What are you doing?” asked Luna.

“You don’t have enough time to get us out,” said Riki, “I going to try to slow down the attack!”

“What, are you crazy!?”

“Come on, you nightmare monster, bitch!” Riki roared, “Show me what you can do!”

Time seems to slow down to a stop.

As the monster is about to attack, a flickering orange light shines through Riki’s hoodie. Luna stops what she’s doing, mesmerized by the light. The light made her feel safe, warm, and fearless. It has the opposite effect on the monster, causing it to hesitate for a bit. But it shakes out of it, firing its attack.

And then…

Baaaaammmm!!!

Out of nowhere, a fist punches the monster in the face. Making it swallow its attack and causing it to blow up in its body. The monster crashes into the ground, roaring in pain and kicking up snow. Riki and Luna’s eyes widen at what they saw. In front of them is a second monster. With all the snow in the air, it’s hard to make out all the details of this creature. The only thing they can see is that it has two horns on its forehead and spiky shoulder length hair.

“A-another nightmare!?” Riki stuttered.

“This isn’t good,” Luna said, blasting at the goo again.

The monster in the snow gets up and lunges at its attacker. Making tentacles to wrap around the horned beast. The two nightmares stats to fight each other, and the horned nightmare is about to fall on the two spectators.

At the last second, Luna got rid of enough goo to pull her and Riki free. Biting down on Riki’s hood, she quickly flies into the sky. They see the horned nightmare crash into the ground from the sky, with the other nightmare on top clawing at its body.

Luna takes this opportunity to fly away, close to the ground. Riki is making sure he doesn’t slip out of his hoodie. He looks behind him, watching the two beastly nightmares fight it out. “This is so fuckin’ cool,” Riki said in awe, “Oi, Luna, what’s the plan?” She said a few things, but carrying Riki by his hood with her mouth, it was hard to say anything. So, Riki swings himself on top of Luna’s back, making sure not to hit her wings.

“We are getting out of here,” Luna said with a slight blush, “My magic does not work to its fullest here. So, simultaneously taking on two powerful nightmares is not good.”

Riki sees something in the snow up ahead. Patting Luna’s head, he said, “Oi, what’s that?”

“A Dream Door!” Luna said with relief, landing in front of the door.

The Dream Door is orange with three horizontal fists engraved in the middle, and an amber eye shape stained glass window on the top. Riki walks around the door a few times. He’s pretty confused about the random door in this snowy hell. Luna opens up the door to reveal a blue and purple cosmic space. Riki was about to say something, but Luna pushed him in.

I slowly open my eyes to see the cosmic space around me. Then, looking down, I see that I’m floating… In space. “What the hell just happened?” I said, trying to wrap my head around it.

“We left your dream. That’s what happened.”

I tried to spin around but somehow ended up upside down, looking at Luna. “Oi, you push me!”

She stretches her wings, “Calm down. Getting through your Dream Door was the only way we could escape those nightmares. You should thank me.”

“Thanks, and what’s a ‘Dream Door’?” I asked. Luna rolled her eyes, like how am I supposed to know what a fucking Dream Door is.

“A Dream Door is a way to get into and out of a dream,” she explained, “Every living thing that can dream has a Dream Door. Each one has its own unique design. All doors lead back to one place… The Dreamscape.” She gestures to the cosmic area.

Having my eyes closed and spinning in place, thinking about what she had said. I run my hand through my hair, “So, basically, it’s like entering someone’s room. The Dreamscape is like a huge apartment building with the Dream doors being the rooms. The unique design is like the room number.”

She gave me a shocked look, “Uh… I never looked at it like that, but basically, what you said is right.”

“Then that makes you the apartment manager who likes to break in!” I yelled, pointing at her, but I was still upside down.

Luna flips me right side up, “It’s not breaking and entering. I help lots of ponies and nonponies with their dreams.”

“We have an old man that likes to bust into people’s houses. Wear a suit red and like to give little kids toys, but since he does that, people think it’s fine.” I ranted.

“Wait, who?”

“That doesn’t matter!” I said, lazily floating over to her. “The real question is that you never answered my question.”

“Wow, you’re still on it?” Luna said with a questionable look.

“Yeah, answer me!”

“Will, if you must know, we use our tails to keep our ‘stuff’ as you put it, from being seen.”

I start to shake my head, “No! Not that one, the other one. Why were you in my dream!? And don’t give me that ‘Princess of the night’ shit.”

Luna stomps her hoof twice, making a medium round table and two chairs appear to form the stars. She went to sit down, and I followed her. “Tea?” Luna asked me, but I just gave her a straight face. “Yeah, your right. We’ve been through a lot. How about a beer?”

“…Yeah…” On the table, two mugs full of beer appeared. I leaned over to pick up my drink, “Thank you.”

“To answer your question on why I was in your dream. It’s quite simple, I want to see a human dream.” Luna answered me, taking a sip of her drink. “I was just curious, that’s all.”

I chugged half my beer, slamming it back on the table. “Why me, why not Liz?”

“I did stop by her Dream Door, but looking inside it….”

“Wait, what!?” I said worriedly.

“It’s not bad, it’s just… I’ll just let you look for yourself,” Luna said, stomping her hoof twice. Next to us, A door appeared out of the cosmic space. It looks like mine, but instead of orange, it is gray, and the engravings are two wrenches in an x shape. “Go on and open it.”

I stayed up and went to open up the door, and what I saw shocked me. I have a bird’s eye view of a half destroyed city. But that didn’t shock me. Liz is on top of a huge fucking robot. She is wearing a gray Power Ranger like suit without the helmet, and she is fighting a huge ass Timberwolf. I slowly close the door and turned back to Luna.

“That's why I came to your dream. I wasn’t expecting two nightmares.”

“Well, it’s the first time I had that dream in a while. The nightmares monsters are new.”

Luna looks at me confused, “You had that dream before, explain?”

“Yeah, when I was a kid, I had that pacific dream a lot.” I said sadly, “As I got older, that dream just went away. I guess I was wrong.”

“Do you wish to talk about it?”

“Thanks, but I’m good.” I said, leaning on Liz’s door, “l dealt with it before, I can do it again.”

“Now what?” she said, finishing her drink. “Do you what to look at Liz’s dream again.”

“Absolutely!”

In the dark alley in the deepest parts of Canterlot, a pony sneaks around with a limp. The pony steps into the moonlight, revealing that it is La-la Lu. She slumps next to some trash cans. La-la moves her cloak around to show a few bruises Riki gave her. “Buckin’ human.” She limps down the alley to a boarded up abandoned building. La-la uses her magic to push up the wooden boards to walk in.

She walks up a few flights of stairs. She can hear the sound of someone eating and the smell of blood. La-la stops at the worn out door. She opens it and says, “I’m back Wrathy pie!”

Wrathy or Wrath is a six and a half feet tall diamond dog. He is leading in a chair, eating a rabbit, and wiping the blood away with a dirty towel. Wrath has a medium size muzzle with two fangs pointing upward. His ears are upright, with his right ear being clipped. Arms are slightly slimmer than a normal diamond dog's and a short tail. The fur is a rust brown with a lighter underbelly and burgundy colored eyes. Wrath is wearing an open navy blue sleeveless hoodie and a platinum swirly armband on his left side.

Wrath looks down at La-la Lu, “What happened to you, paper brat?” he said in a rough voice. La-la tells what happened at the castle and the fight with the human. But Wrath interrupted the story by grabbing La-la’s throat and slamming her into the wall. “You fought the human and lost! Give me one good reason I shouldn’t rip your throat out.” Wrath snarled.

La-la pulls out the blood stained knife and shows Wrath. He snatched it and tossed La-la to the ground. She gets up and says, “Could’ve been more gentle Wrathy pie.” La-la takes off her cloak, revealing her origami crane cutie mark. “The human boy is still in Canterlot.”

Wrath looks over the stained knife, “How do you know?”

“Before I got here, I stakeout the train station. I only saw the human girl and the Elements. We should go after the girl.”

Wrath growls, “No, we go after the boy. I am NOT dealing with the Elements! Go send a message to the others.”

He goes up to a black jar with images of monsters of different shapes and sizes fighting on it. The vase is wrapped around in orange and gray small chains. A vertical piece of paper is on the vase with weird characters. Wrath takes the blood stained knife and wipes it on the paper. The Weird characters slowly but not fully fade away. The vase starts to shake violently, and some of the chains break.

Needs…more…