Twilight gave a small sigh as she double-checked the preparations on her summoning circle, then triple-checked them as she waited for Spike to return from the basement with the proper spell components. Her newly obtained wings rustled slightly in anticipation. This was a very delicate operation, a number of things could go wrong, and she was determined that at least the vast majority of them wouldn’t.

“Twilight, I’m back with those flower petals you needed.” He said as he came up from below with a small cup full of blue flower petals. “The Moonshadow Bloom petals were the second to the-”

“Yes Spike, thank you.” Twilight gently interrupted as her magic captured the cup and floated it over to scatter them evenly around a carefully crown summoning circle in chalk. Very high-quality chalk actually, A Stick of Nag-oromo Fulltouch, she had bought a box during an exchange program outing in Neighpon before the company had gone out of business.

It was one of her most prized possessions, and this project was more than a worthy cause for using almost an entire stick of it to draw the elaborate circle that covered almost half of the surface area of the floor in the main room of the library area. She had had to move the carpets and a few of the shelves in the process of drawing the circle, but nothing less than a full, unabridged runic inscribing would suffice for such an ambitious project.

Spike gave a small huff at the interruption and rolled his eyes “Care to remind me what this is even about? You tried to tell me earlier but you started getting a bit too technical for me to follow and I ended up zoning out halfway through.”

Twilight gave him a small scowl and shook her head slowly. “Ugh, fine. I am preparing to summon a creature in its unaltered state from one of a number of parallel universes. I was doing some research on the topic for...another project, and it piqued my interest. I learned that there are methods of doing so more easily, but those generally require the use of rare artifacts that transform the creatures that pass through it to be properly adapted for life in the parallel universe which they are entering into. This ritual should allow us to simply summon a sentient creature that already has physical characteristics that would allow it to survive comfortably in our universe.

“Uh….huh, and what if it doesn’t work?” Spike said as he crossed his arms, looking skeptical. “Or what if you summon something dangerous, huh?”

“Oh Spike, you worry too much, but that’s one of the reasons you are so great to have around, so I can answer your questions!” She said with a sweet smile, leading to the dragon giving a small, mollified blush and looking away holding his tail.

“If it doesn’t work, then well, it doesn’t work! If it summons something unfit to live here well...I can always take care of the mess myself. And nothing more magically powerful than me should come out of the portal, since the magical potential of any creature I summoned would have to be lesser than my own since anything more powerful than me would be able to resist being summoned without the use of additional, much more expensive and rare reagents to boost the potency of the other spell components.” She said simply as she lit the four candles at each cardinal point of the circle and her horn began to slowly glow.

Her magic flowed in a stream steadily along the runes etched within the circle, filling in each of them one at a time in the order that they were written, the chalk burning away as it was slowly, steadily replaced by the lavender glow of her potent magic.

As the last of the runes was filled and replaced with her aura, the characters began to rise from the floor and circle and swarm around the center in a tighter diameter, the sound of chimes filling the air.

Things began to go wrong as the spell components were consumed. Instead of disintegrating neatly like they were supposed to, they caught fire and charred away to dust, a thick, heavy blue smoke being produced that swirled towards the center of the circle. The Magic poured into the circle began to turn the same shade of blue and the sound of….Laughter, crazed, gibbering uproarious laughter began to fill the room.

“Spiiiike, where did you say you found those flowers again?” Twilight asked with wide worried eyes, still channeling her magic into the spell for fear of the backlash should she stop midway through. The amount of power she had channeled into this spell would be...disastrous to say the last if she let it discharge in a way aside from the way it was intended to within the spell.

“T-the second to the left on the bottom shelf…?” Spike said unsurely as the swirling smoke and blue-hued runes swirled more quickly, chaotically as something began to manifest, its ethereal silhouette visible through the obstructions, the laughter growing slowly louder.

Her eyes grew even wider and panic began to creep into her voice as she spoke again “SPIKE! Moonshadow Bloom is second to the right on the bottom, second to the left is Poison Jo-”

KABOOM

All of the windows of the library are promptly blown out as the spell resolves irregularly, Blue smoke billowing through the shattered frames, leaving Twilight and to a lesser extent, even Spike both coughing loudly.

“Twilight! W-what happened *cough cough*, Are you okay!?” Spike cried out as he narrowed his eyes, letting his second, transparent set of eyelids slide closed in from the sides to protect his eyes before opening the outer set to look around to assess the damage.

“*Cough Cough* Y-yeah, Spike, I’m fine…” she said softly, sounding a bit woozy. She was on the ground, slowly picking herself back up, her horn fizzling slightly and sparking from overexertion. “Ugh...I’m going to have mana sickness after this, I just know it...Spike, can you see into the circle, did anything...show up?”
“I think I saw something glowing when everything started getting all blue and...crazy,” Spike said unsurely as he walked towards the rather large soot stain in the middle of the room.

In the middle of said stain was something laying crumpled in a pillar of that same thick, sickly blue smoke. It was not feasible to tell exactly what it was quite yet, but as the smoke began to clear, it became more visible.

Whatever it was, it was sizable in comparison to the ponies. Even slumped and curled on the ground it was sizable. It was clad in some form of clothing, mostly red, which covered the majority of its body.

Spike slowly walked closer to it, nudging it with his foot with a slightly off-put expression on his face. “Ugh...well, whatever it is, I’m not cleaning it up…”

But before there could be any semblance of argument about who would be scrubbing the soot stains out of the floorboards and disposing of the body, the thing began to shift about, prompting Spike to give a surprised squeal and fall back on his ass.

As it rose to two feet covered in some sort of black shoes with white tops, it became apparent that the creature was indeed tall. Quite tall as a matter of fact, with Twilight’s head only coming up to about its waist standing up straight. It was wearing what appeared to be...a zoot suit. Red in color, with a white undershirt, and a black tie and belt. Atop its head, covering a strawberry red mane was a wide-brimmed red hat with a black band holding a white feather.

It was slim, slender even. Lanky might be pushing it a bit though. And as for its face, well...it was difficult to tell, considering that it did not seem to have one. It had the making of facial features. One could see where there might be a nose, eyes, a chin. But all of its features were smoothed, subtle as if covered by a mask of some sort. The Creature’s skin was similar to the color of a peach, a few shades paler maybe, though the only skin visible was on its ears and neck, the rest of its facial area was green, with a question mark covering it. It did not seem to be a mask, as much as it looked like one, there was no visible seam where the green area might be removed.

And then, as the two of them looked at it silently, it began to scream.

It was muffled, the sound seeming unable to escape properly, as the front of the things head flexed where the mouth would be as its gloved claws began to paw at its face fervently.

Twilight and Spike slowly stepped back, wide-eyed in mild terror and apprehension at the sight of the thing screaming and flailing this way and that as it clawed at its own face. Eventually, the mouth area began to visibly and audibly tear, holes forming and widening letting more and more of the sound out until finally.

“...wooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, YEAHHHHHHHHHH BABY! THAT’S WHAT I’VE BEEN WAITING FOR! THAT’S WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT!” It screamed loudly as it let its hands fall to its sides, clearly relieved to be able to speak. Again. It had rather neat if somewhat large white pearly teeth that bordered on unsettling and smiled quite wide, showing them off with aplomb as it looked around, scratching its head. “Huh...not sure where I got a hat…” it said softly as it looked down at itself, grabbing its outfit “or the monkey suit, but hey, a look is a look I guess…”

As the creature smiled and looked down at itself more carefully, striking a few poses, and sticking its ass out, wiggling it with a small chuckle, Twilight could only stare in abject horror at what she had just witnessed, and stand agog at how casual the creature seemed to be about all of it.

“Dear Celestia, what have I done.”

Author's Note

And another one! Hope you enjoy my attempt at what I can only call structured shitposting.