Ancient Guardians 2: Multiverse Games
Prologue: The Path of Many
Load Full StoryNext ChapterAlter Path, a unicorn, stood in a room looking at many orbs floating around. Each time an orb floated close to him he would glance deep into it. Many of them made him smile, like the orb that showed Sunset Shimmer playing her guitar along side a living animatronic band in a pizzeria or the orb that showed Princess Luna having fun at a Nightmare Night Festival with the Siren head also playing games as it threw a pumpkin at a target like a baseball.
To him he felt at peace looking at these worlds but that was cut short as a knocking came from a big door at the side of the room. He sighed as he turned his head to the door. "Come in."
The door opened and in came a hooded pony. His white pegasus wings poked out of his hood in holes. After walking in he looked at the orbs still floating around. He glanced at one which showed a little house head playing with the Cutie mark crusaders. "I see you've been having fun. Must be hard dealing with all these villains from different points in time."
Alter Path sighed again as he spoke up. "Maybe, but sometimes when it comes to a huge problem we sometimes have to open the door and let the monsters in."
"And I see you've only dealt with the big villains from the main timeline verse. Correct?" Said the Pegasus.
"Yes and as far as I'm concerned I'd rather not deal with millions of other villains from those smaller universes you keep going on about."
"That is why I'm here. I want to help you experiment with these universes. At least in my way."
Alter path groaned as he looked at his winged friend with a stern look. "I must've been telling you this for a hundred times for many years already. We are not putting two equestrian souls from different time lines against each other. You know I'm ethically opposed."
The pegasus looked at him with a smug look. "This coming from the guy who put hungry wendigos, a Martian army, and a train monster in the pony world timelines?"
Alter Path stared for a bit. "Touché, but you know that's different."
"Just like how my plan is different. Look I know you don't like it, but do you really want to see the suffering continue? You and I both know we all can't be everywhere across the many timelines. Don't you want to see the villains of these smaller timelines get what's coming to them?"
"Your plan involves using your own tools and homemade contraptions that could kill lives we don't need to be messing with. My plan involved combining entities from different universes and dimensions, and mixing them into Equestria through my complex jump spell. Now please leave me alone Time Lapse. I'd rather not have this debate at this time."
"Oh come on, can I at least experiment just one time?" He asked.
"When I say no I mean no!" Alter snapped.
The Pegasus, named Time Lapse, sighed and left the room leaving Alter Path alone with his orbs. As he wandered down a barely lit hallway, he thought hard about his plan and what his friend said. He knew he should listen to him but deep down the voices in his head were telling him to do it anyway. All they were doing was reminding him of the suffering and the pain in those universes. He swear he could hear the screaming of an innocent mare being tortured to death as she begged for mercy. In the end the voices won the internal battle of decision. "Fine, if he's not willing then I'll just do it myself anyway. Better to ask for forgiveness than permission. At least that's what Discord would say." He said to himself.
Time Lapse pulled out a scroll from his cloak. It had the words 'Multiverse Jump Spell by Alter Path' in big letters along with small but readable instructions. He went into another room and pulled out a necklace and placed it around his neck. The necklace had what looked like bits of a unicorn horn encased in some kind of crystal. He pulled out the spell scroll and read it. He concentrated hard and soon a portal opened up. He smiled as he admired the glow it emitted in the barely lit room. Just then the door opened and an earth pony mare, also wearing a dark hooded cloak, entered. She stopped as she saw what Time Lapse has done. "HEY! What do you think you're doing?! That's not your spell to use!"
The mare attempted to rush Time Lapse but he immediately jumped in the portal and closed it before she could even get to him. The mare just stared dumbfounded at the now empty room before sighing. "Oh Alter Path is not going to be happy with this."
Somewhere in an unknown place, Time Lapse wandered through what looked like a forest trail. Soon he emerged and found himself on a cliffside overlooking the town of Ponyville. He knew this Ponyville had a monster hidden under the guise of a friendly face. He spoke to himself as he continued taking in his surroundings. "Every universe has a quirk. Some little, some big, anyone can be a hero in one place while they can be a villain somewhere else. Some universes even have villains that never exist anywhere else. But no matter what happens, even those villains will pay and suffer."
He looked down to see the many citizens enjoying their day. He then noticed the Lyra Heartstrings of this universe nailing a flier on the side of a wall near a shop. It was a poster for a missing pony. Upon closer look it was a picture of Rainbow Dash and that she was last seen about a week ago according to the date. "Lets see what monsters I would like to play a game with."
Author's Note
Like I said this story involves evil being made from the fandom like Rainbow Factory, cupcakes, Apple sleep experiment, sweet apple massacre, and many more.
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