Author's Note

A chapter? What does this mean!?

Well sadly it doesn't mean I'll be spamming chapter after chapter soon. This chapter was actually written because (1) I nearly thought Dream escaped after Idol_Laharl_Chan commented Techno's recent stream and (2) it's TheFrozenWarrior's birthday, so here's ya gift.

Kind of occupied in a bunch of stuff, and one of my requirements to continue doing this is when Dream escapes prison, because ya know, don't want to get anything wrong.

Theoretically, I could continue things with just this, but again, busy with other things, other stories. But hey I might come back here after freeing myself up.

Anyway I hope you guys enjoy this short chapter.

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Chapter 11: Status

As the three princesses continued to play through the scenes, their view suddenly began to flicker as Luna’s magic began to die down. The Lunar Princess simply shrugged as she began to power down her dream walking ability.

“Well it seems like today’s shift through his dreams is over. My magic’s dying down due to prolonged use and thus we’ll soon be back in the throne room.” Luna said as the colors began to fade away. Twilight however found herself a bit unsatisfied with the answer.

“Can we come back tomorrow and see if he has more memories that we can see?” Twilight asked. Celestia simply nodded to her while putting on a smile.

“Of course Twilight. Though since our tour here is done, we must now figure out what we should do with this ‘Dream’ fellow.” Celestia stated as they soon found themselves back in the throne room. Immediately the three placed serious faces as they began to talk about the delicate subject. “From what we saw he is no stranger to hurting or even killing children as seen with the Young Six and Tommy. He is a threat to Equestria already that must be contained soon or else somebody else will get hurt.” The alicorn said.

“Not to mention that he already blew up a nation once. If his main goal is to destroy Equestria, things can become pretty terrible soon if he gets all the materials he needs.” Twilight said nervously, images on how Canterlot and Ponyville had been destroyed from multiple confrontations appearing in her mind, causing her to become unsettled as she realized this new one might end up doing it on a larger scale than ever seen before. Luna however seemed to be the most focused on her thoughts.

“Considering that his world has canon lives, perhaps the bodies, which weren’t found, belonged to people from that dimension.” The Lunar Princess said. “If so, we might be hearing reports of multiple foreign people being sighted, and from there we will be able to ask them what happened before they arrived.”

“But then how will we be able to find them? It’s not like one of them is sleeping in the Friendship Castle whom we can talk to.” Twilight said. Celestia simply shrugged at her statement.

“Maybe yes or maybe not. Either way we must immediately notify the public about this event and help them stay alert. If you want I can do that while you and your friends investigate everything for clues we might’ve overlooked.” The Solar Princess said, causing the purple alicorn to smile and hug her.

“Thanks. Hopefully we’ll be able to finish this quickly before anybody else gets hurt.” Twilight said as she slowly began to charge her energy before disappearing from the room. The two sisters sighed before looking at each other.

“Welp. Seems our little retirement plan is going to get thrown out of the window for who knows how long.” Luna stated. The white alicorn simply shrugged.

“Well it does seem to be the case. Anyway we must prepare ourselves, the sun is probably going to rise and we’ll need to be ready to face the entire populace and tell them before news from Ponyville brings panic onto the streets.” Celestia said as she grabbed her crown and placed it on her head.

Far away in the Everfree Forest, Dream laid on the ground after having dozed off. The Speedrunner had attempted to find a lava pool nearby to create a Nether Portal, however after searching for hours he had eventually succumbed to his sleep. Rubbing his eyes, Dream yawned as he extended his arms.

“Huh. Never expected to be dreaming about the Dream SMP. It felt kind of strange seeing things through Tommy’s POV, but hey, a dream’s a dream if ya ask me.” The Speedrunner said as he stretched his back, only to feel something feathery behind him. “Wait… what was that?” Dream said as he looked back only to see a green feathery wing behind him. Turning around, he realized that he had a set of wings on his back. Thinking he was dreaming, the Speedrunner rubbed his eyes again, feeling how his face felt different but not thinking too much about it, and looked back again, this time not seeing the pair. Shrugging it off as just a hallucination, Clay simply stood up and began to walk, feeling some weight on his forehead appear on and off.

“Well that was strange. Anyway, what was I doing yesterday? Oh right, searching for lava pools… I don’t think this forest would have any though… Maybe I should get out of this place.” Dream said to himself before feeling something staring behind him. Turning around he let out a gasp as what seemed to be a cross between a lion, a bat, and a scorpion come out from the trees and lunged at him. With the manticore nearly on top of him, the best thing that he could do was dodge as he took a step back, only to be surprised as his body weight suddenly shifted and he launched himself a huge distance from the beast. Turning his gaze back for a moment, his eyes shot wide open as he saw the pair of wings appear on his back again.

“Wait… I have wings!?” Dream yelled to himself only for them to disappear again, causing him to fall onto the ground. Seeing his prey on the ground, the manticore jumped into the air for a killing blow. Trying to take his sword out as quickly as he could, he suddenly felt something on his forehead active, his body tingling with unknown forces as his sword came out of his pouch and struck the manticore in the face, producing a slash across his cheek. The sword immediately dropped onto the ground as he felt the power vanish, but quickly changing to his bow he fed an arrow into it before firing with expertise, killing the manticore with one shot.

As he walked over to pick up his sword, he noticed a pool of water nearby. Nervously walking towards it, Dream looked at his reflection only to be stunned as he saw himself.

“Wait…” Dream said to himself in complete shock as he saw a green pony with his hair color looking back at him, a mask covering its face. A pair of wings and a horn flickered constantly in the mirrored image, almost as if his body had not been able to decide if he was either, both, or neither.

“I’M A PONY!?”

“WHAT!?”