Blood in the Machine.

by Haloboy11721

YOU ARE IN DANGER.

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Fully emerging from the portal, the golden god closes the portal behind it. It emanates such golden light, one would think it is daytime.

The filly, much to her joy, is happy to see the, very literal, ray of hope.

Seeming to face the filly, it being hard to tell with its smooth features. Its center mass is seemingly just pure sunlight, while the parts of its body that aren't, look to be made of very smooth gold.

One of its 'Hands' points to her. And it asks her.

"Do you consent to being here?"

Does she consent to being here? Absolutely not!

"No!" She yells at the yellow being.

"Understood. Do you consent to this entity to feed on you?"

She answered much quicker on that one.

"NO NO NO!"

"Understood. Do you consent to being rescued?"

"YES!"

"Understood."

As things became quiet for a moment. A ray of light came from one of the yellow beings' hands, and hit the monster. It screamed and before even a second passed. it was gone. Turned into nothing more than dust.

Silence, nothing stirred, nothing moved, and nothing breathed, not even Silver Spoon, Holding her breath, hoping that the monster was destroyed.

Yet a deep feeling in her gut told her it was far from over.

And so, with a shuttering crack, and the blistering of trees, that's when the real monster revealed its true self.

Emerging from the forest, A giant monster, skin as black as a starless night, and rows upon rows of teeth filled what looked to be more of a cavern than a mouth.

Stoic and unmoving, the yellow being stayed there and waited.

The monster with its size and many appendages, very easily destroyed the yellow interloper.

Silver Spoon, after seeing the yellow being destroyed right in front of her, lost all hope again. Her only salvation from this personal hell was gone, dead and destroyed in front of her.

Large, bellowing laughter came from the monster. "HA. HA. HA."

Seemingly mocking her for even having a shred of hope. She began to cry again, the warm tears running down her face, mixing into the colder wet marks.

"No." She says, unbelieving it would just die like that.

"No!" She yells, hoping beyond hope that it would get back up and save her from this nightmare.

"NO NO NO!" She screams at the monster, for it even daring to be a monster.

"Analysis of attacks: complete."

That familiar voice tickled her ears, and she quickly looked back up to where it was before being destroyed.

It seemed to appear out of nowhere, not being there one second, then blinking into existence the next.

"Illusion copy has taken 0.000000000000001% of damage." It said before moving toward the monstrosity.

A sound, a sound of which Silver had never heard, nor was she ever supposed to hear. It began with a whirling, and a buzzing, then finally with the sound of sucking air.

And then she saw it, right on top of the monster.

It was a black hole, rapidly growing in size. It began to eat away at the monster, taking chunk after chunk away from the beast.

Space distorting, and time dilating, it was starting to get so powerful, Silver Spoon was worried that she may be sucked into the powerful attack too, she clenches her eyes shut at the thought.

But just as she thought of that happening, she felt nothing, not the air, not the power of the black hole, nor even the powerful presence of the monster that she had felt all afternoon. Opening her eyes, she noticed that her vision was far more golden than usual.

Looking behind her, she sees the roots clinging to her hindlegs dissolve before her very eyes, along with anything else.

Looking around more, she realizes she's inside a shield of some kind. Slowly, painfully slowly, it was being moved toward the godly figure.

Focusing on the fight happening outside, she realizes she can't even hear anything other than her own breathing and heartbeat.

The shield, seemingly being absorbed by the yellow being, leaves Silver Spoon wondering what's about to happen to her. Her question is soon answered as she seamlessly *pops* into the yellow god. The 'Head' of the being is nothing more than a farce, seemingly, as it was nothing more than a large yellow room, this one having a solid floor, rather than being wholly a sphere.

"Analysis of entity is complete." It speaks, and Silver can hear it, then again, being inside its head would probably help with that.

“Strengths: immense Physical strength, immense domain presence, fear eating, emotional detachment from food.

Weaknesses: Psychic powers of any kind, psionic powers of any kind, black holes, medium or greater holy light beams, physical damage, domain removal, domain collapse, partial domain collapse, total domain collapse, being removed from domain, more black holes.”

Looking around, Silver sees the monster far below her, she realizes she’s not afraid of it anymore, and so she began blowing a raspberry at it.

Roaring in immense anger the monster begins thrashing its appendages all over the yellow being.

Seeing the attacks land one after another, and only hearing a light thunk after thunk, Silver doesn’t even flinch at the attacks.

Now that things have gotten much quieter than they were outside, and with Silver Spoon's heart not in constant flux, she calms down breathing in and out, only now realizing that she's truly safe.

BANG!

Silver's head jerked, looking back toward the monster after it had made a particularly loud strike against the yellow being.

Ignoring the beast, she turns her gaze back, looking around some more.

Other than the floor, this was truly just an empty sphere. Well, not empty anymore.

Turning her gaze back outside toward the monster, she realized something. This yellow god-like being wasn't fighting the monster, no, this wasn't a fight, far from it.

This was an extermination.

Almost as if realizing it itself, the monster attempted to run away.

But Silver Spoon asked herself. "But where would it even go?"

And that's when it hit her. It can't go anywhere. It's stuck here, that's why it brought her here. The yellow being asked if she allowed it to feed on her, and that it also fed on fear.

A shiver ran through Silver, thinking of how big it is, and how many other ponys must have met their end to this monster before she was saved.

She was the lucky one, she realized.

Looking at the monster, and thinking about the lives it has taken over who knows how many years, she feels no pity for it whatsoever.

Screams of a dying god echo into the woods as the beast is burnt to dust by beam after beam of the golden light, all the while chunk after massive chunk is torn away from its body by the black hole.

"Beginning Total Domain Collapse." it said as Silver started to hear a humming sound all around her, as it picked up in intensity, it stopped almost as soon as it began, and while Silver didn't notice anything different, that soon changed as space seemed to shatter all around them.

With the land, sky, and everything that wasn't her, the golden god, and the monster, turning into shards. Everything was gone, replaced with a dark void stretching into infinity. Or at least as far as Silver Spoon could perceive as infinity.

There was no light, no nothing, the only way she could see the beast, was with the light constantly radiating off the golden being.

"So I guess that's what total domain collapse is." Silver says, looking for anything other than the three of them in this void.

For half a second, she swore she saw a crown flying by, but it was going so fast she couldn't even tell if it was really even there.

"Hey!" She says to the yellow being she's inside of. "Can you hurry this up? I wanna go home, please."

As if processing her request. It shoots light from its core, instantly killing what's left of the monster.

With nothing around them but void, she wonders what exactly will happen now.

Then, a yellow light comes from behind her, and as she looks back, she sees that it's the same type of portal that it arrived through, only now, she is leaving with it.


Author's Note

If you're wondering about the bit with the crown in the void, it's a reference to another story more than anything lore related.

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