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Gathering The Names Across The Multiverse
Chapter Indigo: Bolt The Pegasus and Heat The Alicorn
In a beautiful Italian city, ponies and other creatures walk among the old streets. They are all different. Some are ponies, some are zebras, some are donkeys, and there are even camels and dragons. A bell could be heard as they walked, the sun high in the sky, the birds chirping. No clouds in the blue sky, no worries in the city. The city's name is Elena, a city that was a melting pot of all different kinds of equines. The name comes from a princess that lived there a long time ago, but underneath the peaceful exterior, there were two ponies racing in the underground sewers; one was called
A rainbow streak flew across the sewer, and she dodged death traps like giant floor saws, spikes, and traps as she kept flying through the tunnel.
"Come on, what's wrong, Heat?!" Bolt laughed, looking back.
The second pony that had a blazing trail of fire was called
Heat dodged a giant floor saw, a spike trap, and a bunch of spears; she then caught up to Bolt. "I'll be honest, Bolt. This was not what I envisioned when you said we'd take the "scenic route." Heat said she was not upset but also not happy.
Bolt slides as she dodges a swinging pendulum with spikes on the blade. "HA! We've seen so many tranquil landscapes." She returned to flying and turned back to see Heat jumping over the large blade with ease. "I figured you'd like to spice it up a bit!" she giggled.
Heat smirked as she heard that and jumped over a spike trap as it burst through the floor. "You're not wrong." She landed and was now next to Bolt. "However, I'd heard that Elena was an especially beautiful city." She looked ahead. "We should really have seen it."
Bolt sighed and gave her feather wing up. "Oh, you're right. Ready to switch it up then?"
Heat closed her eyes and nodded. "Please do." She opens them and faces her. "I'll follow your lead."
"Awesome!" Bolt smiled. "See you up there, Heat!" Bolt and Heat jumped off a platform and flew against the wall of an up-right tunnel, heading towards a grill manhole cover. They blasted out, landed back on the streets, and took off, leaving a blast of wind behind.
As they raced through the streets, a few ponies were spook as the two raced by, and a few creatures got their hats and stuff blown off them as the two zoomed by. The two passed a few shops and a market place. The stallions and mares were selling all sorts of things and talking to one another.
Soon, the two jump on the rooftops and race across the endless rooftops, laughing and enjoying the rush of speed.
The two returned to the streets and started to walk, enjoying the window shopping now.
Bolt noticed and smiled, knowing exactly what she wanted.
Heat blinks with a blush and looks to her and shrugs, "Uh, a little."
"Awesome!" Bolt cheered, "Let's go!"
The two entered the store, and Bolt waited as Heat tried on the white sundress and hat. It wasn't long before she came, making Bolt whistle and clap.
"You look amazing," Bolt said.
Heat was blushing and smiling. "Thank you, Bolt," she says, noticing the price. "I can't afford it."
Bolt laugh "Wow, that's a first! A princess can't afford a sundress from another universe!" She joked and took her ring bag out of her jacket. "I'll buy it. I know your rings in your universe has no value here."
"Wait, are you sure?" Heat asked.
"Sure, I am." Bolt nodded. "We'll call it a gift. Plus, you're on vacation, visiting my universe. So you'll have something to remember me by when you go home."
"Aww, thank you." Heat smiled and hugged her. "That's so sweet of you."
"It's no big deal, Heat." blushed Bolt, returning the hug.
Bolt paid for the dress and left the store.
"Thank you again, Bolt." Heat said as they walked the streets again, putting the dress in the saddle bag.
"No problem, Heat."
They kept walking, but Bolt noticed an ice cream shop.
"Wanna get some ice cream?" Bolt asked, pointing to the shop.
"I would love some." Heat replied, and the two entered the shop and looked at the menu.
"How about we get two ice creams in large cups? It's on me." Bolt said.
Heat looks at the price and turns to Bolt with a worried look. "You sure? I feel bad if you keep buying me stuff."
Bolt laughed "Oh, relax, Heat. You'll be paying me back by enjoying yourself and having fun. That's all I care about." she winked.
"Oh..." Heat giggled with a small blush and said, "Okay."
Bolt orders two large cups of ice cream, and the two sit outside and enjoy the cold treat. Heat ordered a normal chocolate and vanilla, but she looked over at Bolt ice cream and looked worried as it was a spicy hot pepper and ghost pepper-covered ice cream.
"What the hay is that?" Heat asked, not sure if she should be impressed or grossed out.
"A hot pepper and ghost pepper ice cream. Want to try it?" Bolt offered her the cup.
"No, I'm fine."
Bolt chuckle "It's okay; I get it. You can't handle the heat , even though you are a fire user. You can't handle it."
"Ha ha." Heat said sarcastically "Let me try some!"
Bolt smirked and gave her a spoon of the ice cream. She watched her reaction.
Heat ate the ice cream and felt the cool, cold, chocolate, vanilla, hot pepper, and ghost pepper; her eyes widen and her mouth water.
"Are you okay?" Bolt asked.
Heat swallowed and looked to her, "This is so good!"
"Really?" Bolt said, shocked.
"Yes!" Heat nodded but started to turn red and sweating. "Want to try mine?"
"Sure..."
The two exchanged their ice cream, and Heat ate the spicy ice cream, and her eyes widen as the heat hits her. She took out her water bottle and chugged it down when Bolt wasn't looking.
Bolt tastes the vanilla and chocolate and smiles. "I like it. Not too sweet or bitter, just right."
"Yeah, I agree with your ice cream." Heat smiled and said, "It's pretty good."
Bolt smiled and looked at her, leaning closer. Heat blushed and did the same. Heat closed her eyes and puckered her lips. Bolt got closer and whispered into her ear, "I saw you drink that water bottle. Too hot for you? Knew it."
"What?!" Heat yelled, and her face was now on fire, and steam was coming out of her mouth and nose.
Bolt laughed and ate her ice cream as she ran from Heat, as she was blazing mad that Bolt acted like she wanted a kiss.
They returned running and jumped back on the rooftops and flew across it, but Bolt noticed the large clocktower and turned to Heat. "Are you good to go up there? The view is worth it! I promise!"
Heat looked up and became a bit scared, as she wasn't good with heights...even if she could fly, that didn't mean she wasn't scared of high places "All right. If you say so."
"Don't worry, I'm here with you." Bolt smile.
Heat smiled back, and the two made it to the clock tower. Bolt helped her climb the tower as they flew around it at top speed, landing on the hands of the clock. Bolt landed on the small hand as it was at three o'clock, but Heat landed on top of the hour hand as it almost hit noon. She got her balance and was amazed by the view.
"Bolt, it's gorgeous!" Heat smiled, looking down at the city. "The architecture reminds me of home!"
Bolt leaned on the hour hand and remembered her adventure in Heat's world when the Element Emeralds led her and Scoots to a storm, which teleported them to her world, and having to recover the Jewel Scepter of Harmony from their Discords or how she was sent to Heat's universe after her last adventure in her own world and having amnesia. Heat had to make her remember who she was and get back home. She also remembers Heat telling her that when she had amnesia, she wanted to be called "Firefly" rather than Bolt.
"I didn't get to see too much of it; I'd love to go back and see more!" Heat nodded but was not really listening, which Bolt took notice of. "...yo, Heat?"
Heat snapped out of her thoughts and looked back at Bolt. She blushed and smiled nervously.
"You alright?"
"I'm sorry. I can't help but be distracted." Heat said.
Bolt looked out to the city and smiled. "Yeah, the view is great." The hour hand moved, causing Bolt to almost fall, but she heard a cute noise from Heat and remembered how she hates heights. "Or do you mean you don't like heights?"
"Oh, it's not the height that's bothering me. Not entirely." Heat answered.
Bolt chuckled. "Well, what is it then?"
"It's just that..." Heat began to look down, and she quickly shut her eyes. "You have shown me so many wondrous sights. I've come to love your world as much as my own." She looked up at the clear skies. "So, shouldn't I show it as much dedication? Should I not also strive to protect it? I am the imperial princess of the Harmony Empire. One could say I am a representative of my world—my reality. I should be doing more and-"
"Tsk, tsk," replied Bolt, making Heat look down at her in confusion. "You've saved your world and all that jazz, Heat. You're here for a well-earned vacation! And don't give me the whole "working vacations." shtick. You should really take a break."
Heat looked at her and blushed. "Oh, uh, you're right." She sighed. "AJ said something similar."
Bolt laughed when she heard her, "If it's obvious to that knucklehead, then it has to be easy to understand."
Heat looked down and smirked with her arms on her waist. "Be nice!"
"You're right! She can't hear me. I'll save it for later."
Heat shook her head and sighed.
"Besides, you've done more than enough. Let's just enjoy our day and not worry about anything."
"Oh, I couldn't agree more!" Heat smiled, happy that her friend understood her, but... "Bolt?"
"Hmm?" Bolt asked.
Heat looks back at the blue skies. "I was being serious about doing more for not only my universe but also yours. I keep fearing something big, like what happened a year ago, will happen again. Where all the multiverse is in danger. What would you do if the situation were dire and the same?"
Bolt sighs and looks up to the sky, remembering that adventure from a year ago, teaming up with other versions of themselves and saving the twins from their awful fate of dying as a monster. She looked back at Heat and smiled. "I would do whatever it takes to keep the world and my friends safe. If it was the same event, saving a pair of sisters again, then yeah. I'll do it all over again, no questions asked. They were worth it."
Heat smiled and nodded. "Same, no matter what, no questions asked. That's good; we're the same."
"You bet!"
They look at the view, watching birds fly by, ponies and creatures walking in the streets, and the wind blowing their manes. They were just enjoying each other's company.
"I wonder how Blitz and her sister, Breaker, are doing." asked Heat, as she couldn't stop thinking about the twins.
Bolt looked at her, hearing the sadness in her voice. She could see it in her eyes—a small tear.
Heat looked down and saw her look worried for her. "It's okay, Bolt," she smile but had sadness in it.
Bolt shook her head and looked up at her. "I can tell you're still upset. It's okay to miss them, even though it's been a year since you've seen them. It's okay; you can talk to me."
"..." Heat took a deep breath and looked at her, with tears in her eyes. "I was so happy we saved them, and I hope our lessons taught them well. I just want to see them again and see how they are. To see how much they've grown, how much they've learned, and..." she couldn't say it and looked down.
"You really miss them?"
"Yes."
Bolt smiled and looked back out. "Well, who knows? Maybe we'll see them again."
Heat giggled and shook her head. "Bolt, that's not how this works."
"Well, if you think about it, Heat, We did save their lives and the multiverse; the least we can do is visit them, right? Plus, their parents are versions of us, remember? Blitz is living with Dashie and Twilah, while Breaker is living with Dash and Twilight. They're in good hooves, trust me."
"..."
"Hey, don't think about them right now. Let's not focus on the sad stuff; let's think about the fun."
Heat looked at her and smiled. "You're right, thank you." She smirked, "I envy your skill to balance your seriousness and lightheartedness. I wish I could do that; you are better than me."
Bolt chuckled, "Oh, stop. We're not so different and have our strengths and weaknesses. I'm sure you're great in your own way. Besides, there's not much to learn. What you see is what you get. I'm just a pegasus who loves-"
"BOLT!!" Heat screamed, "I did not require a reminder of how high we are!"
Bolt did a worried laugh as she looked up. "Well, it looks like it's time to go anyway."
Heat slowly looked down at Bolt, her eyes narrowing when she heard that awful pun, "Really?"
Bolt laughed and shrugged. "Okay, I'm sorry. I just wanted to cheer you up."
Heat sighed and smiled a bit, but she noticed her hoof was slipping a bit.
"Whoa..."
She fell and closed her eyes, but she felt someone catching her.
"Thanks Bolt."
"...that wasn't me, Heat."
"Huh?"
"Open your eyes, Heat!"
Heat opened her eyes and saw Discord, smiling at her all evilly, as he's the bad guy in her and in this universe.
"That's the name!" Discord said, showing her his ID from his wallet.
"HEAT!!" Bolt scream.
Heat looked down and saw Bolt, getting ready to spin jump on the draconequus. She turned back and saw Discord, smiling.
"Wait, what?! Da-"
Bolt gasped as she saw Heat teleport away. She glared at Discord and started to spin and jump in the air, getting ready to attack the draconequus.
"You bastard!!"
Discord dodged the attack and laughed, looking at the angry pegasus. "Oh, relax, she'll be back!"
"Where did you send her?! Bring her back!! NOW!" Bolt demanded.
"Oh, I'll do you one better! I'll send you to her!" Discord said, snapping his fingers.
Bolt was engulfed in a yellow light and found herself on the Ark space station. She was sitting at a fancy table, and across from her was Heat, wearing her white sundress and hat. Soon, Discord came out, playing a small piano and singing a little song, as he was the waiter.
"Two 'friends' are on a date."
"This isn't a date, you jerk!" Bolt yell.
Discord chuckle "Sure it is, dear."
Heat was blushing and trying not to think about the date as she looked around the station, hearing stories about this space station where Bolt fought Shadow Dust and teaming up with her to save the world as they teleported the falling station back into orbit.
"Why are we here?" Heat ask.
"Oh, don't worry, my dear. Everything is alright. I'm just trying to set the mood before you two get mad or upset. So relax and enjoy yourselves; the meal is on the house." Discord replied as he snapped his lion paw and two small houses fell on their plates, which had chili dogs on them. "Bolt favorites!"
"Uh..." Heat was a bit worried and scared. She turned to Discord and said, "Good try! I know you put poison in these! We're not stupid, right?...Bolt..." She could see Bolt eating the chili dogs and loving it.
"Mmmm! Discord, these are great!" Bolt smiled and ate her food.
"Oh, I know." Discord smirked, making Heat gasp in horror at Bolt.
"What?! They're good?" Bolt reply and noticed Heat looking shocked and worried.
"Don't you see? It's a trap! He probably poisoned the food, and it'll make you sick or kill you!"
Bolt was confused and turned to Discord, who had a smile on his face.
"You don't trust me?" Discord asks, making a hurt face.
Heat slammed the table and pointed at him. "No, I don't. You're a bad guy, remember?"
"Bad guys can change, you know." Discord said.
Bolt nodded. "He's got a point."
Heat was in disbelief, but she noticed Discord pulling up a seat and looking very serious. Even Bolts took notice and stopped eating, somewhat.
"Heat, Bolt. I'm not this universe Discord. I'm from Twilight and Dash universes. I'm here because the twins are in great danger, and they need your help. Please, help them."
"What?" Heat asks, not believing this.
"Twins? Wait, do you mean the-" Bolt began but was cut off as Discord snapped his fingers, showing an image of Rainbow Sun Dawn, a evil version of Luster Dawn.
"She's the one, who's after the twins. She's going to eat them and restart the multiverse, but with them existing in every universe. That can't happen if she does."
"All current life gets erased, killing trillions and destroying the multiverse." Heat finish.
"Exactly." Discord nodded and looked at the two.
"How or where do we find her, so we can kick her butt?" Bolt asked.
Discord took a chili dog and bit it, making the hot dog cry out like a real dog and running away. "She's in the 'Wall of Between' realm right now. Recovering after another Dawn beat her ass." Discord looked out of the glass window and in space, could see a white hair anthro mare, wearing white jacket and white clothes.
"Others?" said both mares.
"Yes, the ones you team up with to save the twins."
Bolt and Heat smiled and got out of their chairs.
"Getting the band back together? All yeah! I'm in!" Bolt cheered.
"Me too." Heat smiled, ready to help.
"Good, now we're just waiting on someone else from this universe." Discord smiled and looked out the window, seeing the mare nodding and disappearing into glitching prism effects.
"Who?" Bolt asked, starting to guess who might join them, "Scoots? Her smarts can help! Or is it Shadow Dust? Knucklehead AJ?"
Discord shook his head at the guesses, and soon, a door appeared, knocking with great fury and a female voice screaming to open the door.
"There she is!" Discord stood up and opened the door, and a shit ton of lasers were being blasted out of the door, as it was coming from egg looking robots, and Dr. Amazement, a human version of Trixie as a magical mage/super hero from another universe, came running out with a device in her hands and slammed the door, breathing hard. "See? Easy to get her and no way hard or dangerous."
"Woah, what's with her?" Bolt asked, confused.
Dr. Amazement turned to Bolt and Heat and smiled a bit. As she was panting, "Sorry, name is the great and powerful Dr. Amazement!" she shouted and cast spell as a neon sign appear behind her that had her name, but it quickly became Discord's face.
"Nice entrance; now let's go." he said, becoming a arrow pointing to a blue phonebooth to their right.
Dr. Amazement sighed and followed Discord to the blue phonebooth, but Bolt and Heat stopped them, asking who they got.
"Oh yes, this universe Discord. He wanted to help after what was happening, but hearing we only needed his daughter, he refused and attacked me. She wanted to join and downloaded herself onto this device. I was running for my life as he was jamming my magic." answered Amazement, showing them the device and all of them watching it turn on.
"Wait, you don't mean..." whispered Bolt, and she could only smile and wave. "Long time no see, how you been, Enmity?"
A AI of a white pegasus with pink mane, wearing a white dress, as her body that turned red and back to white appeared; it was this universe Fluttershy.
"Eh, you'll be fine. Daddy Discord needs to let his daughter enjoy life and make her own decisions." Bolt winked and looked at Heat. "What about you, Heat? Ready to see some more universes?"
Heat blushed and smiled, "Oh, um, yes."
"Good, now let's get a move on." Bolt was about to fly off, but Discord snapped his fingers and spit a ton of emeralds and other gems or items landed on her.
"Pick whatever deus ex machina powers up and let's go. You'll need it."
Heat look at all the emeralds, a sword, and seeing giant colorful rings and even the wisps were floating around them. Bolt got out of the pile and simply took the Element Emeralds and the Master Element Emerald.
"Oh boy, knucklehead AJ is going to be mad. I wish I could see her face!"
Heat shook her head, but she saw Amazement looking at her and asking if she wasn't going to take a magical item like her friend. "No, I carry Harmony Diamonds on me at all times. I am their guardian after all."
Discord snapped his fingers, and Heat was back in her normal outfit, and she and the others were pushed into the blue phone booth and shut the door.
"...little cramp in here...okay, who has any change? We might be stuck in here a while." Discord ask.
"What makes you say that?" asks Dr. Amazement.
"I forgot to make change before we left."
"You idiot!!"
After digging through their pockets and finding coins, the blue box disappeared, heading off to the next universe, leaving the station with the chili dog sniffing around. Back on Gala Island, AJ returned from her rounds and walked past the shrine of the Master Element Emerald, but quickly ran back as she saw an "IOU" card with a Discord face on it.
"DISCORD!" screamed AJ as the island fell to the ocean below...
end of Chapter Indigo
Author's Note
first chapter done!
yes, this universe is based off Sonic universe but with mlpfim characters(which was explained in the first fic by prime discord)
ps: all art is AI done
Gathering The Names Across The Multiverse
Chapter Green(1): Aaira Kaison and Lil Star
In the deepest part of space, an ice-covered planet with a single moon floating near it was once home to an unknown alien race but is now nothing but a graveyard of the fallen—well, not fallen anymore. In this ice world, the once peaceful alien race corpses are turned into twisted living entities known as the Changers and wipe out their race. In their final hours, they created and left behind a machine that can end the Changer threat for good. Deep within a tower looking machine, climbing up a long shaft and making their way to the top, were two women, suited in their HULL suits.
The two continue to climb, finally reaching the top. They could see the keyhole where the key index has to go. They need to upload the final data and activating the weapon, which will kill the pillar signal for good. They both got closer, but someone came out of the darkness. A man, holding a short rainbow hair and a blue-skin human woman, its this universe Rainbow Dash, with a gun pointed at her head. The man dressed in black winter gear, not even his face can be seen, is this universe King Sombra but called Dalek.
"Give me the index, and I'll let her live. If not, she dies." Dalek ordered.
Both pointed their futuristic weapons at him, but the helmet of the other woman opened, revealing herself as this universe AJ, also known as Amelia Jarvis.
Aaira kept pointing her horncutter at him, shaking with her finger on the trigger. "If he turns off the machine, we're all dead—her, us, everyone!"
AJ lowered her pulse rifle and shook Aaira shoulder. "Don't do this, Aaira. Don't let it go all dark. You can't lose her again." AJ could see her friend was fighting with herself, even talking to no one, but like always, she could hear the name she was talking to, "Little Star." AJ couldn't see her friend do this, so she grabbed the device from Aaira's belt. "There's more than one kind of right." and tossed it over to Dalek, who caught it and pushed Kelly towards them, while Aaira screamed no as they all watched the man put the index into the machine, shutting it down. Turning the once green machine pure blood red as the alien twisted screams could be heard throughout the whole planet.
"What have you done?!" screamed Aaira, but an explosion was heard from the top, where the ice ceiling crumbled apart, revealing the red storm outside and slowly revealing itself. It was a black flesh moon, with tentacles sprouting out and roaring as millions of black Changers were being pulled towards it.
Dalek rose his hands up into the sky, proud of what he had done. "I have done it! The darkness is at an end! The human race and every race in the universe will be one!" He couldn't finish his speech as a giant ice rock landed and crushed him, killing the craze cult leader for good. Soon more ice rocks were falling and crashing around them, and the black moon roared once more as the tentacles reached out to the planet.
Aaira caught Kelly as she lost her balance and held her close and smiled. "Kelly, when I finish this, it's all going down. Everything! You have to get out of here, to safely. I'm not losing you again."
Kelly shook her head, not wanting to lose her, but AJ pushed the two away from her, smirking with sadness in her eyes. "No! You two need to get out of here together! Go back to Earth Sector and tell them what we found! I'm staying! It's all I got left...finishing this mission...I have nothing to go back to...not like you two." She checked her rifle, but Aaira looked at her and placed her hand on her shoulder.
"You can't stop it. Not without me! AJ! I'm the Pillar Killer, remember? This is my fight too."
Aaira was trying to convince her friend, but Kelly whispered her name to her, holding her, not wanting her to go. Aaira grabbed her and looked her in the eyes with hope. "Kelly, I turned my back on the world because I was afraid and lost, after losing 'her' but not anymore. I met a wonderful group of people who made me realize how much I've missed out since I gave up and locked myself away from the world. letting my sorrow, hate, and anger consume me, making a hole in my heart, but it's whole again because of them and you. I love you."
"Aaira, I..."
"You're the reason I kept going and did not give up. You're my spark, even in the darkest parts of my life. So, that's why I need to go. To keep your and everyone else's spark burning, even if I die trying." Aaira leans in and kisses her, making Kelly kiss her back.
They broke their kiss, and Kelly whispered, "Aaira, please."
"No, Kelly. This is my fight, not yours. This is my story, and I'm going to end it today! You have done enough and almost died. You need to keep moving forward...for me."
Kelly shook her head, touching Aaira's head, and tried to hug her, but Aaira stopped her and looked her in the eyes, tears streaming down. She gave her their picture—a picture of them hugging each other and being happy. She pushed her and pointed to the shuttle where Dalek came with her.
"Go! Get back to earth!"
A shock wave pushed them apart, then created a crack between them, not allowing them to reach each other as the machine started to break apart. Aaira reached out and said her final goodbye: "Don't you dare come back for me! We both know I'm not coming back from this one." Kelly reached out, looking at the picture, but clutched it and ran for the ship, screaming in sadness and anger.
AJ put her hand on Aaira's shoulder, trying to comfort her, but a tentacle stabbed the machine and tore it apart, sending them towards the monster-looking moon. As the moon moved closer to the planet, its gravity started to pull them and anything towards it. They stood up and saw the ship taking off and escaping the pull. Kelly is safe now, making Aaira smile. AJ pointed to the index, and both ran towards it and tried to flip the machine on, but the platform went upside down, tossing the two into the air and landing on an alien building surface. Both their helmets shut close and look at each other.
"This is it. The story is coming too an end." said Aaira.
"Let's write a banger then! Shall we? Partner!" asked AJ.
"You're damn right!"
Both held their hands together, ready to end this nightmare once and for all. They started to run across the crumbling building, seeing the index and the machine core.
"We need to get it before the moon does!" shouted Aaira, dodging a fallen rock.
"Roger that partner!" replies AJ, jumping over a large gap and still following Aaira. They ran, but look back and saw the building crumbling was getting closer to them. They hurry along and encounter alien Changers, which looked like nightmarish twisted elephants. With their black bodies twisted, claws and teeth showing, the trunk is now a face with a split open mouth.
Aaira fired her Horncutter, shooting the body parts off the Changers and kicking them away, as AJ shot them with her pulse rifle, destroying them and continuing on as the machine was getting closer to the moon.
"Shit!" shouted AJ as black and yellow tentacles sprouted from the remains of the crumbling building and tried to crush them, but they were able to escape it and came across a gravity road and jumped into it, sending them flying across the storm as rocks, buildings, and ice flew past them.
"I hate this part!" screams Aaira.
"Oh, c'mon! This is fun!" AJ said with glee.
"You're crazy!"
They reached the other side, dodging falling rocks and the tentacles, and jumped up, seeing the machine close by. They ran towards it but stopped as they saw twitching Changers zipping around them.
"I hate these fuckers!" screams AJ, trying to lock on to these monsters.
"Oh, c'mon! This is fun!" teased Aaira, making AJ glare at her.
"You're fucking crazy!"
They ran forward, killing the Changers with their weapon secondary gravity feature, avoiding the tentacles once more, and seeing the core, which was close to the moon now. They almost reached the core, but the platform flipped around once more, sending them flying to a floating rock. Aaira slammed into it, damaging her helmet, which started to spark and crack.
"AHH! Fucking hell! My helmet!" screams Aaira, holding her head.
AJ looked back and saw the black moon, and the core was near its mouth.
"WE NEED TO GO! NOW!" screamed AJ, holding her friend and jumping off towards the moon.
"WHAT!?"
Aaira didn't have time to argue, as they both went flying towards it. Using their space booster, they took off faster, dodging everything that flew by. The black moon roared and reached out its tentacles to try and kill them, but the two were too fast.
"Almost there! Get ready to push yourself forward!" yelled AJ.
Aaira nodded, holding her side arm and ready to use it if need be.
They both crash-landed on a stone platform and rolled to a stop. They both looked up and saw it. A giant yellow eye, looking at them, and a hellish scream that could ever be heard...and a voice...
"WELCOME BACK! SISTER!"
Within Aaira's mind, Little Star shouted back through Aaira, "HELLO BROTHER! YOU SHOULD HAVE KEPT SLEEPING! BECAUSE NOW YOUR AWAKE TO SEE YOUR DEATH!"
The moon scream out and laugh. "MOTHER WILL COME! YOU WON'T STOP ME FROM CALLING OUT TO HER! YOU'LL BECOME ONE WITH US ONCE MORE! MAKE US WHOLE! DEAR LITTLE SISTER!"
Aaira stood up, ripped off her damaged helmet, and pointed at the moon, "NAH! I'M GOING TO BLAST A HOLE IN YOUR FUCKING EYE! How about that? AAIRA! AJ! LET'S FINISH THIS!"
AJ nodded and pointed her pulse rifle. "LET'S END THIS CHANGER, MOTHERFUCKERS!"
With no hesitation, both ran and jumped into the air, dodging the tentacles and shooting the eye, but seeing the machine between its eyes stem.
"We need to reach the machine, but no way in hell do we have enough ammo to fight this fucker!" shouted AJ as they landed on another platform.
"No, but we do have these!"
Aaira pointed to the red pillars that were floating around them.
"We can overload our kinesis module and toss the pillars as weapons!" soon Lit Star took over. "Poking big bro eyes! Smart thinking!"
"I agree! Let's do it!" AJ and Aaira turned on their kinesis modules and started to charge the pillars, while Little Star kept talking to her brother.
"WHY!? We do not need to kill all life in the universe! We don't even need to eat! Tell me why!"
"BECAUSE MOTHER WISHES FOR IT! WE ONLY LISTEN TO HER!"
"YOU LIE! You like doing it! You love the feeling of fear and destruction!"
"YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! WE ARE THE CHANGERS! THE NEW AGE TO THE UNIVERSE!"
"I DO UNDERSTAND, AND I DIDN'T FUCKING ASK OR WANT ANY OF IT! I WON'T LET YOU KILL ANYMORE LIFE! FUCK MOM!"
Aaira and AJ finished charging her kinesis module, ready to throw the pillar, but something grabbed Aaira; it was tentacles and tossing her to another floating platform, spitting the two, but they followed the plan and tossing the pillars at its eyes. The moon has five eyes. It was a long fight, but the last eye blew up as the pillar jammed into it, making it scream in pain.
"NO!"
Little Star watched as AJ landed near her, and both saw the core of the machine being let go and floating in front of them. They both jumped and landed on the platform, but became staggers as the long battle and getting here made them exhausted. Aaira held her bleeding side on her head, with AJ seeing this and helping her friend, but Aaira shook her head and pointed at the machine.
"I-I'm fine. We have to do this."
AJ put Aaira's arm around her and slowly walked her to the machine. "This is it. If we use the index, it blows this fucker for good; everything ends. This is it, right?" AJ sat Aaira down near it and sat with her. "No more bullshit, right?"
"Right, this is it. End of the line." Aaira coughed as her head wound was getting worse.
Aaira and AJ reach into the glowing core, touching the index device and turning it back on, sending out a rainbow energy pulse, blasting AJ away into the falling debris, and screaming out as she vanished.
"AAIRA!"
Aaira waved goodbye to her friend as she too was blasted into the sky, seeing the moon and everything around them crashing back to the dead, cold planet. She closed her eyes, happy that it was finally over. She felt Little Star speaking to her.
"....Aaira..."
"It's over. I can finally rest. Don't cry, Star. Be happy. We can finally be together again."
"No, you don't understand."
"What?"
"...we failed..."
"WHAT!?"
Aaira suddenly saw the moon being grabbed by a giant tentacles and pulled to space, revealing a sun-sized green-black moon—this universe, Chrysalis.
"Mother is here. We couldn't stop him."
"NO!" screams Aaira, seeing the moon opening its surface, revealing its black eye, and speaking to her as millions of moons gather from different parts of the universe.
"SWEET LITTLE DAUGHTER AND YOUR FOOLISH CRUSH! YOU'LL PAY FOR HURTING MY CHILD! I'LL EAT EVERYTHING IN EXISTENCE! THEN I'LL TAKE YOU BACK HOME! MAKE YOU BOTH SURFFER FOR ALL EXISTENCE! IT'S YOUR FATE!"
"Aaira! I'm scare!" cried Little Star.
Aaira closed her eyes and waited for the end. She failed; everything in her universe was going to end—all life, all her friends and family, even Kelly.
Suddenly, she heard AJ on the radio, screaming at someone.
"LET ME GO! YOU ARE BLAZING HOT!"
"How rude! I'm saving your life!" said a very familiar voice, which Aaira open her eyes as the radio went dead.
"...was that...Heat?" asked Aaira to Lil Star, who said she hoped so, since if she's here then that means...
A golden light appeared within the darkness and soar across the open void of space, entering the planet's skyline, grabbing Aaira, and flying off, dodging Mother Moon's tentacles, saving her.
"Aaira!"
Aaira opened her eyes, seeing an old friend in her super form. "Bolt. It's been five years. You look good."
whole pillar thing. By the way, you look good too." She stopped as they were far away from the tentacles and could talk in peace.
Aaira groans as she hears that pun. "Really?"
"I'm just trying to lighten the mood. So fill me in, is this the final boss your facing off?" She looked up, seeing the sun-sized moon.
Aaira nodded. "Yeah, but...we failed."
Bolt looked at her friend and said, "Maybe you did, but I'm here now!" She wags her hoof at her. "This is another Monday for me, you know."
Aaira put her hand on Bolt's head and said, "This is my problem, not yours." but she suddenly heard Heat on the radio.
"Heat? Why are you two even here?"
Bolt's face became very serious, making Aaira very worried. "It's the twins. Someone is going to kill them and restart the multiverse, killing all life. They need us. ALL OF US !"
"Shit, we can't let that happen!" shouted Aaira, grabbing Bolt by the jacket. "How are they!? Are they hurt!? Are they safe!?"
Bolt couldn't help but smile and tell her she didn't know; they're fighting the monster in their universe right now and their older now as its been ten years for the twins, and Braver's Discord came looking for them.
"Again, let me help! I promise to leave one alive, so you can deal with it."
"Thanks, Bolt; I needed this." laughed Aaira, giving her the okay to go ahead.
Bolt smirked and used her element control to send Aaira away to Discord and the others. She looked up, narrowed her eyes, blasted off to space, and faced off against Mother Moon.
"WHO DARES FACE ME? MOTHER MOON!"
Bolt pointed at her, "The name is Bolt, Bolt the pegasus! And I'm your worst nightmare, miss mommy dearest!"
Mother Moon started to laugh, along with all the millions of moons around them.
Bolt laugh "You have no idea who I am! I have fought machines and gods. They were mighty! They were finite! Heck, I even beat a version of you in my universe! But none of you compare to those two little fillies! They're stronger than you!"
The Mother Moon roared out in rage.
Bolt laughs and points at her again, "Well, your looking at one!"
Suddenly, Enmity appeared next to Bolt and touched her shoulder. "Bolt, I completed my scans on the moon. It's just like 'The End'; you need to burst through her core and kill her. You need to do it fast. She's getting strong—stronger than the one in our universe. It seems her 'children' are giving off a signal towards her. Making her powerful. Your super form is protecting your mind from the madness and Discord is shielding everyone else but your powers won't last if she keeps getting more powerful. You need to end her now."
Bolt smile "Thank you, Enmity. I'll do the rest." She gave her a wing thumbs up.
Enmity nodded and vanished, leaving Bolt to return her gaze at Mother Moon, seeing her getting closer.
"Let me show you why I never lose!" Bolt closed her eyes, and soon, red energy started to spark around her. "If my friends are in danger, I will not stop, not for a second. I will protect them! Because I love them! Because I care! I will never give up! EVER!" Her eyes shot open, revealing her blue eyes, as she's was in Super Bolt 2 form.
"HA! CHANGING YOUR EYES COLOR WON'T STOP ME, YOU FOOLISH BUG! I WILL END THIS UNIVERSE!"
Bolt crosses her arms and glares with rage. "You haven't seen anything-" Within a blink, she was gone, and Mother Moon could feel something burst through her. Bolt was behind her now, looking at all the other moons. "Yet."
"T-THIS CAN'T BE! H-HO-" Mother Moon started to glow, and within a flash, she exploded, ending the Changer Mother for good. All the other moons started to flee, but Bolt zip through them all at light speed, making them all blow up, finally ending the nightmare at long last.
"Tsk tsk, I was hoping they would put up a better fight." She sighs and turns around, blasting off to the space station that was near the planet and teleporting inside with her element control. She landed in a medbay, returning to normal and could see Aaira being treated by Dr. Amazement magic, while others were around them and noticed Bolt. "How's she doing?"
Dr. Amazement nodded and said she was going to be fine.
"Good." Bolt walked over and looked at her friend. "You did it, Aaira. You ended the nightmare."
Aaira shook her head. "I didn't do anything; it was you."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk, give yourself some credit. You did all the work; you got this far and just needed someone to pass the baton to." She leans over and puts out her hoof. "Now I'm giving it back to you. I bet there's still work to be done. Something tells me some crazy person is going to revive the moon or something." Bolt watched as Aaira laughed and grabbed her hoof.
"You don't know the half of it. Thanks."
Bolt smiled and said she would always come when she called. "That's what friends are for, right!?"
Aaira smiled and said it was nice seeing her again.
"WHAT'S GOING ON!?" shouted AJ as she was in the corner, her weapon at the ready. Aaira told her to put the weapon down; they're friends. "You have weird-looking friends!?" shouted AJ.
"Yup, the best ever! You'll love them, trust me." Aaira told her, pointing to Bolt and Heat.
AJ lowers her weapon and asks who they are. Soon, she was filled in what's happening.
Bolt smirked and gave her a salute, introducing herself. AJ gave her a salute back but realized what she had done, making Bolt laugh hard.
"I'm sorry! I just...fuck, this is real? Are we even real? WAS MY FAMILY DEATH EVEN MATTER!? IF THERE IS A MULTIVERSE OUT THERE, THEN THEY'RE ALIVE! THEY DIDN'T NEED TO DIE!?" She started to panic, pacing around the room, asking the others if her family really needed to die.
Heat walked over to her and told her to calm down. "Your real. Your family is gone, and it hurts. Nothing can bring them back, but don't think they'll be happy if you break apart right here and right now. You want to honor them; live on."
AJ looked at her and said, "You don't know what I've been through!" AJ dropped to her knees, crying, "I HAD TO PUT A BULLET THROUGH MY HUSBAND AND DAUGHTER HEADS! I couldn't get to them in time! MY WHOLE WORLD ENDED BECAUSE I'M A FAILURE!"
Heat didn't know what to say, not even Bolt. Discord looks away and left. Amazement understood her pain, though, as she lost Dr. Wonder to Rainbow Dawn and couldn't save her.
"You did everything you could..." whispered Amazement, not even sure if she heard her, as the room was filled with AJ crying.
It wasn't long before AJ finally stopped, and she was in the corner again, sitting down and hanging her head in shame.
Aaira sat up, holding her head, as Amazement healed her. "Heat, Bolt, where did Discord go?"
Bolt shrugged. "I think he left. I'll go find him."
"I'll help too," said Heat as she followed her out of the room.
Aaira lay back down and closed her eyes. She wanted to sleep, but she suddenly heard Kelly's voice on the radio, crying as she was calling out to her.
"Aaira? Are you there?" Aaira could hear Kelly sniffing and trying to hold back her tears. "AJ? You're both gone, aren't you?" Kelly said it with a broken heart. Aaira started to cry as Kelly kept talking. "The Pillar signal...it's gone, Aaira. You did it; you really did it!" Aaira could hear her realizing she was dead, and the radio went off.
Aaira turned on her radio and could only say, "Kelly?...Kelly," but she knew that Kelly had jumped away.
"Why didn't you answer her?' asked AJ, still hanging her head in shame. Amazement wanted to know too, and as it was odd that she waited to reply to her.
Aaira sat up. "Because I'll be saying goodbye to her again. The multiverse is in danger, and those kids need me. I couldn't let her know I was alive—not yet."
AJ didn't say anything, not caring what Aaira does; it wasn't her problem, but she did say, "I'm going to kill myself then."
Aaira was shocked, turning to her friend, and was going to say something, but AJ held her hand up. "No. No, I don't need to hear it, Aaira. My mission is over. My family can rest in peace; we saved the universe. Let this be my reward." Aaira and Amazement could hear her crying, "Please."
"NO!" shouted Aaira, but she stopped as Amazement used her magic to force AJ up and stare at her, who was still wearing the helmet.
"STOP IT! STOP WALLOWING IN YOUR OWN MISERY AND DON'T TOSS YOUR LIFE AWAY! Your family won't want that! So PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER!" She used her magic to rip off AJ helmet mask, and she froze as she looked at AJ, who looks like Captain AppleCore, her universe AJ and greatest super hero ever.
"I failed my family. I couldn't be there for them... I had PTSD from the war and shut my family out. I became a stranger to my own daughter." She started to cry hard. "They became those Changer fuckers... I had to put them down. It was the universe telling me I didn't deserve a family."
Amazement and Aaira couldn't help but feel sorry for her, as Aaira knows how it feels to lose someone and blame yourself. Heck, AJ knows it as they talk during their fight on the planet, so talking to her won't change things...
"I let my honey bun die in front of me...she..." whimpered Amazement, making the two turn to her.
"She was your wife? You were a couple?" asked AJ
Amazement nodded; she had lost the love of her life to a human monster and couldn't do anything to save her. "We were just a couple. I loved her and looked up to her. It was my fault that she died; I wasn't strong enough. She's dead, and now I'm alone."
Aaira wanted to ask her who it was, but AJ spoke before she had a chance. "Then you understand, right? I have nothing left to live for. My family is gone. My mission is over. I have nothing left."
"BUT YOU'RE WRONG!" shouted Amazement, making the two girls flinch. "Don't you see? We're both in the same boat; we're both failures; we're both broken, but we're still here! Our story isn't over yet."
"It doesn't matter," said AJ, putting her hands on her face. "I can't keep living like this. It hurts too much."
"NO!" shouts Amazement, pulling AJ close. "I won't let you die... I will make sure your family is proud of you and does not see you as a failure. Stand proud! You are alive to keep moving forward! Just like me! I won't let my honey bun die in vain and let all her sacrifices mean nothing! I will live for her!"
Aaira smiled upon hearing this. Amazement was right; they're both not dead, so that means their stories are still not over.
"So, stand tall and don't be a coward! Live! For me and for your family! Live, dammit!"
Aaira watched AJ cry and soon hugged Amazement, saying nothing. Aaira couldn't help but cry too, happy that her friend was staying alive.
"Thank you...thank you..." AJ kept repeating over and over again.
Amazement was smiling too, seeing that hope was returning to AJ.
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything." said Enmity, as she appeared in the room, spooking AJ and Aaira, but not Amazement, as she shook her head but both noticed Aaira standing up and slowly walking over to Enmity, with her hand reaching out to her. "What's wrong?" asked Enmity, all worried.
Aaira whispers as she moves, "It's...how?" but she suddenly shook her head and pulled her hand back. "No, you're not her. She's gone. Sorry for scaring you."
Enmity was very confused by this.
"Aaira...I don't blame you. Kelly showed me a picture of 'her' and she almost looks like her." reply AJ, looking at Enmity and back to Aaira, "You going to be okay?"
"Yeah, sorry." Aaira turned around and looked at Amazement and AJ.
"So, are you guys leaving now or...?" asked AJ.
"Yes, Discord asked me to get these two." answered Enmity, looking at them.
Aaira picked up her horncutter and loaded it. "Right, we don't have time to waste!"
"Hold on, I'm coming too!" said AJ, picking up her pulse rifle and loading in a new clip.
Amazement and the others were shocked by this, making her ask why. This wasn't her problem.
"True, but you said something about saving some kids, right? Over the radio, I heard everything," said AJ, holding the rifle in her hands and looking at it. "If what Bolt said was true, these kids will need all the help they can get. Plus, what kind of mother I'll be if I don't protect other children's out there?"
Aaira smiled, seeing her friend getting back up and ready for round two. She walked over and gave her a hand shake.
"Good to be back."
They both laughed and were soon interrupted by Enmity.
"Then let me repair your suits. They were badly damaged in your battle." Aaira and AJ nod and watch her raise her hands, and cyber magic covers them, repairing their suits in seconds. She lowers them and bows to them. "Please be careful next time. We still need you."
"Thank you; we'll try." Aaira looks at the door and sighs, "I wonder how the others are doing? Bolt said the multiverse was in trouble. Is my universe even safe now? Plus, Bolt said it was a year for them, but for me, it's been five years. Could it be because..."
Enmity answered her question. "Yes, it's time dilation. The multiverse doesn't run on one time period, as different universes have their own. So, time is a little...different, from universe to universe."
"Right, that's what Bolt was saying. She said it was ten years for the twins." said Aaira and turned to leave, but all four found themselves in the lobby of the station, as Discord snapped them here.
"Correct, as Enmity explained. Time is flowing differently in each universe but I have someone helping me, so basically we're not part of the flowing time stream right now. We have all the time in the world...but for now." he told them, not caring that he just snapped them all here without warning.
"HEY! Give us a heads up before you do that again, will you!?" shouts Aaira, looking around the room and touching the stuff to make sure she wasn't going crazy like years ago.
Discord smirked as he snapped Aaira away a few times, and each time she reappeared, she spoke.
"My, my, aren't you a little grumpy?" asked Discord, smirking as she was angry at him.
Aaira glared at him and was about to say something, but Dr. Amazement put her hand on her shoulder, telling her that it wasn't worth it. She tried hurting him, but nothing worked.
Discord sighs, "I'm sorry. Here, let me make it to you." He snaps his fingers, and a basketball-sized purple moon appears in her arms. Amazement, Enmity, and AJ didn't know what they were looking at, but Bolt, Heat, and Aaira did.
Aaira smiled and hugged her. "Good to see you in person again and not fighting off the madness."
"AAIRA!" cried Little Star as she snuggled into Aaira's arms, happy they could be together in person again.
AJ was looking at her, wondering if it was the real thing or a fake, but she remembered hearing that name before.
"I'M GOOD!" shouted lil Star, floating out of Aaira arms and hovering around the group "I was born in Aaira mind and was order to betray her when she reach the pillar on the mar space station but meeting the others and seeing how I was hurting Aaira...I couldn't do it. I wanted to make Aaira whole again! Pull her back from the darkness!"
AJ didn't know what to think or say but just nodded.
Lil Star started to hum a song as she was happy but she froze as she saw Enmity and had the same reaction as Aaira.
"You sound like Aaira. It's a sad tale, isn't it? Whoever I remind you of." said Enmity, sadly looking down at the floor.
Discord claps his hands, making them all look at him.
"Ow! Watch it!" shouted Heat, as she was forced to go up top and cramp at the ceiling with Bolt.
"What the fuck? This thing is tiny! You lying piece of-" shouted AJ, as she was cramped in the bottom part of the booth but stop as she saw Enmity, who clearly was a young child. "...cake."
"Hey! Who's squishing my tail!?" shouted Bolt, feeling someone touching her tail.
"Christ, my back is going to kill me after we get out!" said Aaira, joining AJ at the bottom.
"HEY! I'M NOT A CHAIR!" scream lil Star as Discord sat on her, as she was in Aaira's lap.
"Kill me now..." whispered Amazement as she was pressing against the glass door as she shut it.
Enmity phased through everyone and she sat on AJ lap, glad she was a hologram and not real.
Discord pick up the phone and took out the phonebook and flip the pages and took out Amazement index book of another universes. He look up the next universe and was about to dial the number but realize something.
"Oh shoot, I forgot to make change again. Can one of you give me some change for a dollar, please?" asked Discord, looking at the group.
Everyone groans as they all reach into their pockets and search for spare change.
end of chapter Green(1)
Author's Note
man, i love deadspace 3 but it has sooooo many problems and ending was one of them :/
Gathering The Names Across The Multiverse
Chapter Orange(1): Rainboom Flash
In this universe, anthro ponies and other creatures not only live on earth but on the moon as well, as Queen Lunar rules the moon. She was beaten by Rainboom Flashing, known as Flash for short, who returned to her universe after saving the multiverse with the others. She saved the love of her life, Midnight Dusk, while her friends were saved by this universe, Princess Cadance, as she fought against Midnight's older brother. It's been 15 years since that time, and now on earth, we come to the largest dojo on earth. Could see millions of students, and the dojo was built into a large castle, where the owner lived. Inside the dojo, the students were all working hard to be the best or to just have fun.
Suddenly Discord pulled the camera from the view and to the recording booth. "Too bad, that's not their dojo. You really think an idiot like Flash can make something like that?" He laughs as he tosses the camera back to the universe, now hovering over a tiny dojo in ruin state with a RV next to it. The children students were all wearing different kinds of martial arts uniforms; some were just bathrobes given out to them and doing their training.
"Ms. Dusk, it's almost five o'clock; my mommy is going to pick me up. Can I go change? My uniform is getting dirty."
"Ah yes, your mother should be here soon, FireHeart." Midnight replied and looked at her with a cold stare, scaring the child a little. "But you can't get out of shape, so keep doing the drills."
"But...what about my..." cried the child, fearing what might happen if she wasn't out of her uniform when her mother shows up.
Midnight sigh, closing her eyes, knowing she was right. This child has a mother, and she shouldn't keep her waiting.
"Oh, please, you look like a cute bunny!" said a strong female voice, making her turn to the small field of crops that was near the dojo. She could see her love; it was this universe, Rainbow Dash, Flash, wearing a blue jacket, a yellow shirt, blue pants, and yellow boots. She went back to puling carrots and other vegetables out of the dirt, as she was sweating.
"Flash... I told you, I'm not that cute." blushed Midnight with her cold stare, walking over to her.
"Aw, come on! You're so cute when you smile." Flash winked, pulled out another carrot, and tossed it in the basket before returning it to the ground. "Is the training done with the little warriors?"
"Don't call them that. They're just students. And yes, they're cleaning up and changing clothes." Midnight answered and looked over the garden, seeing how much food she grew. "You might be the stupidest mare in the world and the most powerful warrior ever." She looked over at the garden once more and sighed, "But you sure have a green thumb, that's for sure. You could grow food out of stone."
"Thanks! It's not too hard; you just have to water them." Flash answered, pulling out a few cucumbers and placing them into a second basket.
Midnight walked closer and stopped as she saw Flash standing up, wiping away the sweat from her face, opening her jacket, and flapping air on her chest. Midnight cheeks went pure red, and continued to walk over to her, and without saying a word, picked Flash up with one hand, put her on her shoulder, and headed to the RV.
"Midnight?" asked Flash, confused by what she was doing, but before she could ask more, Midnight opened the door and entered it as the door closed behind her. Soon it swung open, and she kicked out her mother and former queen of the moon, Lunar, and her aunt, who raised her like a daughter, Sunny Light, out of their asses along with their game they were playing.
Midnight said nothing and shut the door and locked it. She lovingly set Flash on the small bed.
Midnight smiled; her cold, emotionless face was gone as she smiled with such a evil grin, and darkness surrounded her. Now Flash realized what was going on, making her sigh, as she was going to have a 'battle' with her loving wife.
"Oh..."
"Oh indeed." Midnight replied, looking at her with passion and lust as dark energy started to burst out of her.
As this was happening, the sisters returned to playing Connect four, as the game was now 3-3 and Sunny was winning this match. Sunny could see Lunar was sad—not because she was losing but because of what just happened.
"You know she loves you; stop acting like you think she hates your guts. She forgave you all those years ago. Why can't you forgive yourself?"
"I know, but I did so much damage and so many evil things. I almost killed her..." said Lunar, sadly, lowering her head. "And it took me being defeated by those two to see the truth." She drops her red piece and blocks Sunny's next move.
"I couldn't have won. Their love for each other and friendship were stronger than mine power and my dark heart."
Sunny shook her head and corrected herself, "No, you could have won just now in the game. You could have gotten a connect four, right-" Sunny dropped her piece, blocking her sister's move. "Here!"
Lunar didn't know what she was talking about and then looked at the game. Her eyes widen, seeing her sister was right. She faced the palm herself while the kids walked out of the dojo and waved goodbye to them, but suddenly the RV started to bounce up and down, releasing powerful energy.
A small anthro rhino child, who was new to the dojo, asked what was going on in there, making an older anthro dog girl say, "Teacher is training with her wife! I WANT TO BE LIKE THAT! ALL POWERFUL!"
All the kids started to talk about being that strong as they left the school and headed home or had their parents pick them up. Sunny and Lunar were glad these kids were too pure to not understand what was happening in there, making them chuckle.
"SIS!" screamed Sunny, taking cover.
Lunar grabbed the game board and dunk on the ground, and both watched as a rainbow beam blasted from the roof of the RV and slowly faded away. They stood up and sighed.
"You should have really taught her better to control her magical energy when she's under pressure, big sister." Lunar said, brushing the dust off her body and the board game. Soon, both sisters were playing their match again.
"Flash is hard to teach, you know that. Besides, I taught her how to fight, not that 'fight'." she blushed. "In the bedroom."
Lunar smirk "Well, of course, you are still a virgin!" she teases as she drops her piece.
Sunny dropped her piece. "Am not! I had sex! Plenty of times with...someone." she blushed.
Lunar smirked, "Who? Give me a name." She dropped her piece and watched as her sister was blushing and trying to think up a name. "HA! Still a virgin! The only thing I beat you in."
Sunny gasps and drops her piece. "Having sex isn't a competition, Lunar. Sex is a bonding experience when two people or more can join together."
Sunny flinched, got closer to the board, narrowed her eyes, and saw that she had indeed lost. Without saying a word, she blasted the board game with a golden ray from her hands, and the pieces and board were burned to ash.
"Best out of three, sis!" said Sunny, standing up and pounding fists together.
Lunar got up as well, kicking the air. "You're on!"
Both charged at each other, but they quickly saw a blue phonebooth just pop into existence. Smacking into it and sliding down the glass. Within the booth, Amazement screamed as she saw Lunar's face press against the glass. Soon, the doors opened, and everyone spilled out.
"My back!" screamed Aaira in pain as she held her lower back.
"Mine too!" screamed Heat, rubbing her shoulders.
Bolt shakes her body and touches her messy tail. "Man, my poor tail..."
Lil Star rolled across the ground and started to float as she shook herself. "I need a bath. I smell like..." she said, looking at Discord, who was walking out of the booth, smiling. "Whatever you are! I'm not a chair!"
Discord snapped his fingers and dressed Lil Star as a gamer chair and sat on her. "I dunno, you are very comfortable. Maybe I should keep you forever."
Lil Star gasped, as she was now being used as a chair again, and tried to get out of it, but it was no use; he had her trapped in a form that she couldn't get out of. She started to cry for Aaira, who took notice, along with the others. Everyone was fighting with Discord while the two sisters stood up and looked at the weird group of characters. They wanted to ask them questions, but the RV window opened and a dark mist steamed out, making everyone turn to it.
"Oh, she's mad now..." whimpered Lunar and Sunny as they hid behind the phonebooth.
Two dark purple glowing eyes appeared and shouted at the gang, "SHUT UP! I'M CUDDLING WITH MY LOVE! I DONT CARE WHO YOU ARE, BUT KEEP IT DOWN!"
Everyone could feel the energy coming from this "thing" and ready for battle, but Discord lean back in the chair, causing poor Lil Star to cry again.
"YOU WANT TO FIGHT!? ALRIGHT! I'LL BEAT YOUR AS-" the mist vanished, revealing Midnight blushing and silvering as Flash kissed her bare neck. "Sweetie!"
Flash smile, wrapping her arms around Midnight, kissing her again but froze as she saw the group.
"Flash! Your naked!" scream Midnight, hurrying out in a robe and holding a blanket, wrapping her wife up. "What the hell is going on here!? Who are you people?"
Everyone looked at her and then the others, who were confused about what's going on, not knowing what the hell just happened. Flash let them go, and I was wondering why Lil Star was a gaming chair.
Aaira and Heat looked at Midnight, who suddenly realized who they were.
Aaira nodded her head as she looked her over, seeing that she looked like Layla if she was much older but well trained in combat. "I take it you are Midnight, right? Flash told us about you. Happy to meet you."
"Yes, it's wonderful to see you at long last. It seems Flash did indeed save you." Heat bows at Midnight, who bows back.
"This is..."
"Weird?" said Heat and Aaira at the same time.
"Yes." answered Midnight, who started to laugh with Heat and Aaira.
Meanwhile, Flash got a high five from Bolt.
"Yeah, well, I have been working out a lot." said Flash, blushing.
"So..." asked Bolt, flying next to her head and whispering to her, making Flash tilt her head to her. "So that's Midnight, huh? I see you found your drive and fighting spirit in love." Bolt eye brows wiggle, teasing her with the pun, but she was surprised to hear Midnight laughing at the pun. "What?"
Midnight turned to her with the same cold look. "I'm trained to listen very well. Very shit pun, by the way." smirked Midnight, scaring Bolt.
"Glad Heat isn't like that..." thought Bolt, slowly hiding behind her friend, who was just smiling like an idiot.
"By the way, who are the others over there? They look like my universe friends." asked Flash, finally noticing the others, who were talking to her master and mother-in-law.
Bolt flew in front of her. "Right! Listen, the twins are in trouble! Some crazy human is after them and wants to kill them and restart the multiverse. They need us again. Are yo-" Bolt was stunned as she could see how mad Flash looked, and energy started to pour out of her.
"Let's go!" she said in a very powerful tone.
Bolt and everyone watched as Flash went into the phone booth and stood there as her blanket fell off, causing everyone to look away, while Midnight rushed to her and told her to get dressed first and to eat before leaving.
Everyone was in or outside of the RV as Midnight was cooking everyone some food, while Heat and Aaira were helping her. She was amazed at how Heat wasn't getting burned as she touched the hot pot of boiling water.
"So, it's been different years in your universes? That's explains a lot." said Flash, looking at Bolt, who really didn't change much, but looking at Aaira, who clearly aged a bit, it was true. "It's been 15 years since that day. I never stop thinking about you guys. I miss you!"
Bolt was on the roof of the RV with Discord as they were sunbathing. "Miss you too, Flash. Glad things work out in your universe."
Flash nods and looks at the others, seeing AJ playing Connect Four with Enmity and letting her win. Seeing her master and mother-in-law overlong the two and placing bets on the match.
"I take it you had it rough?" asked Amazement, who was leaning on the RV and also looking at the others.
Flash turned to her. "Kind of, my mother-in-law wasn't a great mare back then. Trying to destroy and rule the world, you know, bad guy stuff."
Amazement look at her, dumbfounded but letting her continue "She kidnapped Midnight and mind-controlled her. I was in the battle tournament that Lunar hosted on the moon. When I return from saving the twins and the multiverse, she was saved by Dash and Dashie. I confessed to her, and we beat her mother up together."
"Okay, but wait, the moon?"
"Yup, she once ruled it, and people live up there, but they voted her out after our battle with her. She moved in with us ever since." She had a big happy smile on her face, looking at how much Lunar had changed.
Amazement glare at Lunar "So, you gave her a second chance? After what she did to your love and to you? Even to others?"
"Of course, everyone deserves a second chance. That's how bad people learn to be good. To be stronger and be loved by others." answered Flash proudly.
"Even the ones that don't deserve a second chance?" Amazement asked, clutching her sword hilt, shaking with fear but also rage.
Flash looked at her, seeing her touching her sword and shaking. "Even them. Everyone deserves to be happy and have a chance at life."
Amazement leaps forward, holding her sword and screaming, "EVEN THE ONES THAT KILLED YOUR LOVE ONES!?" She's panting as she sees the shock and confusion on Flash's face, making her even madder. "EVEN THE ONES THAT KILL THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE!? THEY DON'T DESERVE NOTHING BUT DEATH!"
Flash stood up, getting more concerned, as did everyone else, hearing what she had said: "Are you okay? Is something wrong?"
Amazement started to shake as she realized she had burst out her rage at Flash.
"Amazement!" Flash was about to give chase, but her wife came out and called her to go eat.
"Dinner is ready; come inside," said Midnight, waving to her. "I'll get her." Flash sigh, looking back at the spot she vanished from. "Come on, I'll do it." putting her arm around her wife, kissing her, and calling the others to come inside.
"Okay..."
Everyone entered the RV, which was very small inside, but they all made it work, while Midnight closed her eyes and found Amazement and teleported away like her.
Midnight reappeared in a night city and on top of a roof. She saw Amazement sitting on the edge and crying, but stopped as she sensed Midnight.
"...it's beautiful. I can't believe this universe could terra form their moon."
Midnight looked up and could see the earth, as they're on the moon. She looked back down and walked over to her, who kept talking. "Sorry, sorry for screaming at your lover like tha-" Just before she could finish, Midnight kicked Amazement off the roof, sending her falling to the street below.
Amazement screamed as she quickly cast a teleportation spell and floated above the city, sighing with relief.
Midnight lean in "You lost someone dear to you, haven't you? Someone you can't replace. Someone who was the only one who understood you, the one who loved you."
Amazement gasps upon hearing this. Midnight tosses her back to the city, making her fly through the air and crash through the roof of a house, scaring a sleeping family and causing them to run. Midnight hover above the house.
"You are filled with rage, sadness, and sorrow. You can't let it go, and you want nothing more than revenge."
Amazement shot out of the hole and charged at her and attacked her with her sword, but Midnight easily dodged every attack and grabbed her and slammed her into a car parking building, making her crash inside and causing a car to explode, destroying that row of cars. Midnight landed and watched as Amazement staggered her way out of the flames, as a bubble was around her.
"But at the same time, you're lost, scared, and filled with so much fear that you can't even draw your blade from its sheath." Amazement look at her sword and her eyes went wide, as she saw it was true, her sword sheath was still on her sword "So many emotions, all mixing together."
Amazement growled and cast a huge ball of energy at her, causing a massive explosion. Midnight didn't move and was standing still as the blast died down, and she was still standing there, looking the same as before.
"How is she standing there? That attack should have at least blown her back or something." thought Amazement, watching as Midnight walked towards her.
"Because your anger isn't strong enough. Your power is weak. You are afraid. You're afraid when you finally face the one who killed your love that you can't defeat them. The fear that they'll kill you and then the pain you'll feel in failing to get the revenge you so much desire."
"SHUT UP! YOUR JUST A VERSION OF HER!" She charged at her again, but Midnight easily grabbed her sword hand, stopping her. "YOUR NOTHING LIKE HER! SHE'S SWEET! KIND! A HERO! YOU ARE NOTHING LIKE HER! SO SCREW OFF!" She screamed and cast another blast, but Midnight didn't move or do anything, and it exploded, and she still didn't move or do anything.
"And yet, you're so focused on the goal, you don't think about anything else." She threw her to the ground and stood on her back, preventing her from moving. "That's why I will teach you. Teach you how to fight and overcome the fear you have. How to be stronger. But not the way you know. Because of the path you are following, it'll lead you nowhere but death. Ending your story."
"No, please don't. Don't tell me that..." whimper Amazement, realizing she was right, and the tears began to flow.
Midnight took her foot off of her, grabbing her by her cape collar and lifting her up. "But I'll give you a chance. I'll help you if you wish. It's your choice where your story goes."
Amazement slowly looked up, seeing Midnight's cold, dark look. She started to cry again and threw herself into her arms.
Midnight nodded her head and held her like a mother holding a child; even Amazement could feel the warmth. Midnight lean back, shocking Amazement as she saw the kindness and gentle look she was giving her.
Amazement started to tear up again, but started to tell her.
Flash and everyone else were eating the soup and sandwich Midnight made. Flash and everyone else were worried about Amazement, but they saw a purple light flash at the door, and soon, a purple barefoot kick opened the door. It was Midnight, and she's holding Amazement in her arms like a baby who was crying.
"Oh my god! Are you okay!?" ask Heat and Lil Star, seeing how ruffled up Amazement looked but froze as Midnight glared at them and everyone else.
"I've only known Amazement for a half hour, but if anything happened to her, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself." Midnight walk into the bedroom and close the door.
Everyone was in shock and confused, but Flash and the sisters weren't as they smiled.
"Don't worry, she doesn't mean it. Under that cold stare is a warm and kind soul." said Sunny, dipping her sandwich in her soup.
"Yeah, she's a lot like her father. She might have my looks, but she carries his heart." added Lunar, nodding and proud of her daughter.
Flash had a big, stupid grin as she put her arms around the sisters. "It's why I fell in love with her! Midnight can bring out the best in people. She's my fighting spirit, my drive!"
Everyone smiled, and soon they could hear a faint lullaby and soft crying from the bedroom.
It was nighttime; everyone was outside. Flash turned to the sisters and bowed to them.
"We're coming with you. This danger is a huge threat to the entire multiverse, including ours. We're not going to sit around while you go off alone, Flash." Sunny said, putting her sunglasses on.
Lunar nodded in agreement. "Yes, as a mother, I can't stand by and let this maniac get her hands on those poor kids. I'm joining you in this battle!"
Flash turned to Discord, who told her he didn't care, making her pound her fist, ready to go, but she heard the RV door open and saw Amazement walking out.
"Sorry about yelling at you."
"Don't worry about it."
Amazement nodded and walked over to her and the others, but everyone could feel the powerful magical energy coming from the RV, and soon walking out was Midnight, wearing her dark orange karate uniform and her bare feet taped up with blue sports tape.
"Midnight?" whispered Flash as she watched her walk up to her.
"I'm coming; I made an oath to train Amazement but also to help you and repay those two versions of you. Rainbow Dash and Dashie. They freed me from the mind control and saved me. I knew if they didn't, as soon as you returned, I would had killed you, my dear wife. Please let me go with you." pled Midnight, looking down.
Flash smiled, grabbing her chin and lifting it up, making her blush as they looked into each other's eyes.
"For sure. Together forever." said Midnight, hugging her, to which she returned.
Amazement held her chest; seeing how much they love each other, made her think about her love. She then saw Sunny and Lunar walking back to the RV.
"Never mind, if Midnight going then you won't need us." said both sisters, but Midnight let go of Flash, and the dark energy returned as she grabbed their collars and tossed them into the phone booth with such great force.
"You freeloaders aren't going back on your word, are you? I won't allow you to bring dishonor to my wife's name. Your coming with us and help or else."
Both sisters had their backs to the phonebooth walls and were sweating as they saw her cold stare and quickly nodded.
"Good." She then turned to the others and pointed to the phone booth. Everyone crams inside the phone booth, not saying a word, not even Discord. Midnight glare at Enmity, who was still floating outside of the booth, she grabbed her hand but was shocked to see her hand phase through her.
Enmity did a small squeak. "I'm a hologram; I'm not solid. Sorry for the scare."
Midnight looked at her hand and back at Enmity with the same cold stare, but Enmity could see it had sadness.
"She's a very sweet woman, isn't she?" asked Flash, smiling.
"She really is..." answered Amazement, then turning to her, "You are very lucky to have her."
"Thanks! I can't wait to see Dr. Wonder again! They can finally meet each other; she didn't believe me that I would marry my love of my life!" Flash had her stupid grin, but she noticed Amazement looking like she saw a ghost. "Are you okay?"
"What? Oh, yeah. I'm fine." said Amazement, waving her hand and looking away. She tried her best not to cry and didn't have the heart to tell her what happened to Dr. Wonder. "We better hurry!"
"...okay?"
Both cram into the phone booth, and they shut the door.
"Alright ladies, next stop!" Discord, flip the phonebook, and tap the universe number "Magical Fruit Universe!"
Flash, Aaira, Lil Star, Heat, and Bolt all had the biggest smiles, knowing it was Berry's home universe.
"I hope she's doing well." said Heat to the others.
Aaira smirk "I know she is! She's the bravest little pony we've ever met!"
Discord was about to dial the number, stop, and turn to the others, who all groan.
"Dude! We're broke!" shouted Bolt, pulling out her empty pockets.
Discord laughed as he was about to make a joke at their expense, but was stopped as a large coin bag came up to his face. He looked down, and the one holding it was Midnight, who looked up at him with a cold stare that turned him to ice.
"I have a ton of coins. Use them, but..." her cold stare went into a twisted evil look. "You have to pay me back, down to the last coin...or else..." her face returned to normal and she gave a happy smile.
Next to her were AJ and Aaira, who were shaking with fear with their helmet on and trying their best not to shoot her, not because they didn't want to hurt her because they wanted to live and not make her mad.
Discord took the coin bag and sweated. "Oof, she's pretty scary for a Twilight variant..." thought Discord as he took the coin bag and put in the coins into the phone and dialed the number, making the phonebooth disappear.
In Berry universe, she and her friends defeated a giant monster that attack Ponyville, but Berry looked at her friends cheering, not caring they could have died in this fight. After seeing death firsthand, she changed; she became hardern and colder, and her friends didn't notice it and were still cheering. Berry turned away from them, but her team leader, Grape, took notice and called out to her, asking if she was okay.
She turned to them, her eyes filled with the cold reality of the truth in life: they could die in any battle; this isn't a game or sunshine and rainbows anymore. This was life and death. She wasn't going to let death take away her dear friends from her...
End of chapter Orange(1)
Gathering The Names Across The Multiverse
In the multiverse, not every universe is like the prime universe; some are dark and twisted, like Aaira universe. Right Aaira?
"Why are you putting a mic in my face, you cra-"
See? She agrees. Now what was I talking about? Oh yes, how some universes are darker than the rainbow and sunshine, that is other universes and the prime universe. In this anthro universe, there's a sickness called Chaos disease, where a parasites infects the host, giving them extra animal parts of their own species or another and also giving them different weird magic, like chaos magic or very rare rune magic. But the catch is that they go mad and slowly die, turning into stone and becoming spores after death, spreading the eggs stacks of new parasites to nearby hosts. The sickness came with no warning, and most of the world is infected, while those who aren't infected are on moving city bases.
Those that are sick, or known as simply the "infected,", as they're outcasts, seen as nothing but monsters, and treated as such; some are experimented on. Some infected, rose up, and created their own army, fighting for their people, and the one leading them is this universe. Ember, known as Nova,
But Nova isn't alone in looking for that dawn. There's another one, her childhood friend, this universe Twilight, known as Layla,
But that doesn't mean the girls aren't at each others throats. Nova will go to any lengths to end the suffering of her people, including hurting or killing anyone that stand in her way, no matter the cost. While Layla believes that the infected and non infected will see a day without hate, will find peace and live as one as a cure will be found, ending the meaningless fighting, without the need to kill each other, as both are fighting for a better tomorrow, a dawn to find, just in different ways.
...which both girls paths lead them to fight each other in their final showdown, but Layla was teleported away to save the multiverse, while Twilight and Twilah, who fused as one, faced a crazed Nova, who is slowly falling to the madness. When Twilight leapt out of this universe, Layla returned and continued her final battle with her dear friend and the outco-UGH!?
Discord could feel a hand around his throat and being tossed out of the phonebooth, as Midnight dust her hands and walked of the booth, annoyed "Stop wasting time talking to yourself. We'll be in there all day if you kept chatting." she turned around and saw everyone spill out of the booth. She looked around and could see they were in a park like area. The park itself is sealed in a steel doom.
"This isn't Ponyville," said Berry, looking around.
"You think?" replied Midnight, making Berry whimper and hide behind Grape, who glared at her counterpart.
Discord stood up and dusted himself off. "Of course not; there's no 'Ponyville' or anything like that here. We're on Canterlot Island, or CI for short, a mobile airship. It looks like we're in their park area for their residents."
"We're on a floating ship!?" gasped Berry and Grape, floating above the trees and looking around. That's when the lights went out, and the red warning lights and alarm started going off.
"What's happening?!" shouted AJ, readying her pulse rifle.
"WARNING! WARNING! THE CHAOS INFECTED HAS BREACHED SECURITY LOCKDOWN AND ARE OUT OF CONTAINMENT. ALL CANTERLOT ISLAND MEMBERS, REPORT TO YOUR DUTY STATIONS. AREA IS UNSAFE! ALL COMADING LEADERS, REPORT TO THE DUTY STATIONS! LOCKDOWN IS UNDERWAY!" said the computer.
"Great, that's just great," groaned Discord, looking up at the ceiling and seeing the hologram warning signs. "This was meant to be a quick pick-and-go. Welp....good luck." Discord gave a peace sign and faded away, causing Amazement to swear at him in anger.
"Where the fuck is he going with that useless snake bastard?!"
"He left us, didn't he?" said Enmity, sadly.
"It looks like it, kid," said AJ, trying to cheer the little girl up but turning to the others. "So what now? Do we go help, or will they mistake us for enemies?"
Before anyone could answer, Plum hop off the phonebooth and flew pass, saying she wanted to see these kaiju, drooling a ton and disappearing into a nearby hallway.
"PLUM!? Why is she here?" shouted Grape as she flew after her, with Berry close behind.
"GIRLS! WAIT!" shouted Heat, flying after them.
Bolt shook her head and told everyone to follow them, as they were already gone and she knew this was going to lead them into a worse situation. Everyone took off, running towards the hallway, but Amazement felt her collar being pulled and tossed backwards, and looming over her was Midnight.
"What are you doing?" asked Amazement, but she froze as Midnight classic cold stared at her.
"They can handle this, we're going continuing your training right now." she put her arms behind her back "Stand up and draw your sword. Face your fear."
Amazement looked at her, seeing no room to argue, stood up and touch her sword hilt and started to shake and sweat. She couldn't draw it like before. Midnight closed her eyes.
"We have time. Take your time," she said.
Amazement was shaking but took deep breath and tried to reach for her sword again and she felt it. The fear creeping up on her, like a monster from a horror story. She wanted to stop and turn around but she kept reaching for her sword and slowly pull out her sword but stoping, as she saw her, the one who killed her love. She let her sword drop back into its scabbard and fell on her knees and started crying, knowing that Midnight wasn't going to give up.
"I can't... I just can't..." she cried, putting her hands on her face, feeling her tears going down her cheeks "I can't draw my sword against her...not her...anyone else, fine. But her? I just can't..." she sniff and looked at Midnight with her wet eyes "You wouldn't understand..."
"You're right, I don't." Midnight opened her eyes and turned around, narrowing her eyes at someone, who was walking towards them "I do, however, know that someone is here."
Amazement's eyes widen, and she quickly wipes away her tears. She stands up and turns and sees a shadow monster with dark green eyes, filling the park with pure darkness, like the night sky. Amazement cast a light spell as she and Midnight were surrounded by pure darkness, with only two glowing green eyes looking at them.
"...this magic!? It's almost like dark magic, but it's very different. Midnight, do you know what's going on?!" asked Amazement.
"No." Midnight answered, her horn glowing.
The monster's eyes glowed a bright green and let out a roar, sending a shockwave, which sent Amazement back, while Midnight wasn't phased by it and flew forward and fired a beam of magic at the monster, which hit and did no damage, surprising Midnight.
"How can something like this exist, and why do I feel familiar with its magic?" thought Midnight as she stared down at the creature.
Suddenly, both could hear clapping coming all around them.
"I'm amazed that someone can almost hurt Crescent while in our realm," said a cold female voice.
Amazement tried to create a more powerful light spell, but no matter how hard she tried, the darkness wouldn't go away.
"What the heck is this darkness?! Why can't I get rid of it?! Whoever you are, come out and face us!" shouted Amazement, drawing her sword, the monster roaring at her, getting closer to her. Finally revealing itself, a shadow Alicorn, as it was about to bite down on her, but Midnight got in front of her and took the bite on her arm, blood pouring out of her arm as her body was pushed back into Amazement, making the girl scream.
"MIDNIGHT!?" shouted Amazement, holding onto her, seeing her blood on her clothes, Midnight's expression unchanged and still looking at the shadow Alicorn.
"Foolish, taking the attack for her? What good did it do you? You're hurt because of her own stupidity. Going by your outfit, you're a fighter. Well, good luck punching with your arm bleeding." said the voice as the shadow Alicorn licked the blood off its mouth.
"Midnight, we have to retreat." said Amazement, trying to drag her back but Midnight didn't move and instead glared at the monster.
"Foolish? You shouldn't be talking. You gave your location with that attack." Midnight grabbed the shadow creature and pulled it, making the voice grunt. Midnight stared down in front of her and dashed forward. "Summoner, you are a fool, a very big fool."
The shadow Alicorn tried to slash at Midnight but missed as it tried to protect its master. The unicorn tackled the creature master, pushing her out of the darkness and into a tree. The shadow Alicorn screamed in pain, the darkness disappearing.
"You are limited in your range, I could hear your foot steps as your monster charged towards us. You may have power but you lack experience in hiding your presence." said Midnight, letting her go and swinging her bleeding arm, tossing the blood near the dark blue unicorn face, wearing a doctor uniform.
"Thanks for the feedback; I'll take it into consideration." said the blue unicorn, cleaning her face with her sleeve and smiling. "Now you got me; who are you and why are you here?"
Midnight spit the ground as she realized who this universe counterpart is.
"...you look like my free loader mom."
"What?" asked this universe Luna.
Amazement walked over and asked how she knew Layla, as they were here to get her.
"She's my daughter, and let me guess, another crisis?"
Before they could answer, the warning returned, making Nanna sigh.
They followed her but Amazement could see the shadow creature appearing behind Nanna back and glared at the two, even though its master didn't seem to notice it. Amazement was about to tell Midnight but she could see Midnight already knew and the same with Nanna shadow.
"If it makes a move, it's gone."
The creature narrowed its eyes and faded away, knowing it would lose a fight against her.
Meanwhile, the gang reached the others and found themselves in a burned, melting and ice covered hallway.
"It looks like a sun blow up, but there's ice everywhere." Bolt said, looking at the melting but yet frozen walls.
"What happened here?" asked AJ.
Grape and Berry could sense it, even Flash.
"It was magic. Very weird magic. Like two different magics are one in the same," said Grape, touching the walls.
Berry looked down and could see some blood.
"And blood. This is bad."
Flash could feel a lot of magic and the energy ahead of them.
"Whatever it is, its ahead of us."
Everyone nodded, and the team headed forward, passing more melted and frozen walls but getting worse than the last.
"Hey, is anyone else wondering why we haven't seen anyone else so far?" asked Aaira, running in the back of the group, "Or any bodies? This hallway is clearly a sign of someone powerful heading somewhere but there are no signs of anyone here to stop them."
Everyone couldn't agree more. There should be some bodies, and yet there's nothing.
"Hey, Heat," said Bolt, looking at her. "When we face whoever is causing this weird fire or whatever, you might have to deal with them. Like the old saying goes, fight fire with fire."
Heat rolled her eyes but nodded as she went into her burning form and blasted forward but stopped as she entered what seemed to be a mess hall for the residents.
The gang reached her and was wondering why she looked confused. They looked inside and joined in the confusion.
"I JUST WANTED TACOS AND CHILLI PIE! I WAS HUNGRY!" shouted this universe Ember, known as Nova, as she's on the floor and acting as a child and releasing weird aura that felt blazing hot but also dead cold. She was in the line and the lunch staff sighed as it seems this was a common thing and kept their distance from her.
"Stop acting like a child, Nova! You're an adult. Act like it," said this universe Twilight, Layla, pushing an empty wheel chair. "Also, stop running off like that; you set off the warning alarms again, and mom's going to be mad." Layla was going to help her up, but something flew into her face. It was Plum.
"OMG! YOU LOOK LIKE GRAPE AND THE OTHERS!" Plum started to drool and hug Layla's nose but quickly saw Nova, who was standing up weakly. "HOLY COW! A DRAGON KAIJU! OMGOMGOMG!" She flew and smacked into Nova's face, but quickly let go as Nova's aura burned and chilled her. "HOT, but also so COLD!" Plum flew away into another hallway.
"Was that...Nanna? But small?" asked Nova, sitting in the wheel chair, but she noticed Layla's shock reaction. "You okay?"
Layla said that outfit looks like Berry and turned to the hallway where she entered from, just for her to see friends and a new group of people she had never seen before and started to cry.
"Girls?"
Bolt waved at her. "Long time, no see, Layla. How have you been?"
"Bolt! Girls!" shouted Layla, letting go of the wheel chair and running towards her friends, who stepped forward and hugged them. "It's good to see you all! Why are you girls here!?"
Before they answered her, Nova rolled her way over to them, but everyone but Heat stepped back as the mix of cold and heat was too much.
"Hiya. Name's Nova. You guys must be her friends who saved the multiverse, right?" She smiled and said, "I'm her childhood friend." She then turned to Heat, smiling at her. "You must be Heat, right? I can't believe someone other than Layla and Nanna could withstand my chaos magic. It's an honor to meet you."
Heat nodded and said the same, and Layla quickly wiped her tears and introduced her friends to Nova, but she noticed how Aaira and Flash looked much older and saw the others behind them, not seeing them before.
Heat turned to Layla with a serous look on her face. "Layla, we need you. It's the twins. They're in danger."
Layla's eyes widen. "Blitz and Breaker? What's wrong!? Tell me!"
"They're in danger, along with the multiverse," answered Nanna as she entered with Midnight and Amazement. She is also holding Plum by her tail.
"PUT ME DOWN!" shouted Plum, flaring her arms and legs.
"Shut it," said Nanna and Midnight with their cold stares, making Plum whimper and stop.
"Mom? and another version of me and a human, What do you mean also the multiverse?" Layla turned to her friends and asked, "What's happening!?"
After being explained what's happening, Layla stood up from the table as Heat explained everything, while the others were far away as Nova was sitting with the girls. She has a serious look.
"We'll save them and the multiverse. I'm not letting some crazed human take away those two better tomorrow. Not after we fought for it for them and they earned it—to live rather than die as a monster! No, not on my watch!" she said.
"So are we going to sit here and chat, or are we going to do something about this crazy lady!?" shouted Nova, slamming the table, damaging it and making the lunch staff shout at her.
"Nova?" said Layla.
Nova coughed some blood but smiled, "What? Let's go kick some butt together! I'm not letting you go off alone! I'm co-" She started to cough, with blood hitting the table.
"NOVA! You need to go back to the medbay. You-" Layla tried to touch her, but she was pushed away.
"I'm not staying; while you are risking your life again, I'm going. I'll just rest up on the way, okay? Plus, the more chaos magic users, the better." she smiled.
Layla looked down and thought for a moment as she saw the wrist guard on Nova, then looked at her own. She shook her head.
"No, the harmony guard is keeping you alive, but if you use your magic, you'll be burning away what little time you have left, and you know that."
"I've been dying for years. I'm not giving up."
"Dying?" asked Amazement, who stopped eating her taco with the others.
"Yeah, she was infected like me, but her madness almost took over and she almost died as she went into a meltdown state." She sat down and touched Nova's arm. "I saved her by giving her my harmony guard when I returned home, but it's just slowing down the disease before sh-." Layla couldn't finish her sentence and touched her head. "I can't do it anymore. I can't see my childhood friend dying," she cried.
Nova patted her head. "Hey, it's okay. Look at me. You did all you could; let the time I have left be worth something. Now, stop crying and wipe your tears." She smiled and turned to the group. "So, I guess I'm joining the group, right? If it's okay with the oth-" suddenly, she started having a coughing fit, a very bad one as more blood came out.
"NOVA!" shouted Layla.
Nova held her chest and said it hurt and she was having trouble breathing.
"You should be in the medical bay. You can't-"
Nova glared at her, cutting her off. "AND WASTE AWAY IN THAT BED!? NO!" She calmed down, still feeling the pain in her chest, and started to breathe again. "I'm not going back. If I'm going to die, then I'm going to write my own damn ending, and there's no way in hell going to be in that damn bed. Now, can I join your group? Or not? If not, I'm coming anyway."
"What!? Why!?"
AJ, step forward. "Well, for one, you'll be dead weight in battle if you can't even handle talking. And two, it's your safety, and I think Layla doesn't want you to die on her, not on the battlefield."
"But I'll be-"
Flash, step forward. "You are strong, I can tell, but you aren't in any condition to fight. So, you are staying here. End of story. We have to leave now." She turned and left with the group.
"What a jerk," said Nova.
Heat and Layla were the last ones, and Heat turned to Nova. "Helping friends is important, but it's more important that you live. Live and fight another day. That's what Layla wants for you—to see a better tomorrow and a new dawn. Right Layla? Right?"
Layla couldn't talk and looked down, and Heat patted her shoulder and left, leaving Nova and Layla.
"So, you'll be leaving me here then?" Nova said, not looking at Layla, her eyes dark and angry.
"I'm sorry..." was all Layla could say.
"I guess the girl who saved the multiverse is too good for some random dying dragon. Well, whatever, go and have fun with your new friends."
"Nova..."
"Get out."
"What?"
"I SAID GET OUT!" she shouted, her voice echoing the mess hall.
The staff were cleaning up and were telling them to leave, not wanting trouble in the hall.
Layla wanted to say something, but Nova was clearly mad at her. She had no choice but to leave. She didn't see the staff members giving her a sad look.
"That wasn't nice, young miss," said one as they stood far from Nova and cleaned the tables.
"It's the second time since that month that you got out of the room, and here you are, yelling at her," said another.
"Oh, shut it," said Nova, her tone still harsh.
"We don't know what is going on between you two, but it's not right to yell at her. She's trying to help you." said the second staff member.
Nova dripped into her wheel chair, the staff members shaking their heads.
"Tsk tsk tsk, friends shouldn't fight."
Nova looked up and pushed her wheel chair away as she saw the worst infected ever. Having tons of animal parts on him. Nova tried to summon her flame swords but started to cough, and it was just as bad.
"Not now! Damn it!" She coughed and coughed, falling out of her wheel chair and crawling away from him.
"My, my, my, you poor child, why don't I help you?" said Discord, snapping his fingers and placing Nova on a table in mid-air, and she could see a blanket over her body and weird cut-out shapes. Discord appeared, wearing a doctor's uniform and a pair of glasses. "Now, you are suffering from an incurable disease, but don't worry, Dr. Discord is here to make it all better."
"NO! Let go of me! HELP! HELP! PLEASE! HE'S TRYING TO TURN ME INTO HIM!"
They didn't listen; they were just doing their work, cleaning and talking, not even noticing the weird floating table.
"What did you do!? What did you do to them?" shouted Nova, trying to break free but couldn't, feeling weak and dizzy.
Discord smiled "Oh, nothing; they are fine and well. Now let's see, where are you?" said Discord to himself as he held out an oversize tweezer and put it through the holes in the blanket. Nova could feel it digging into her body, but the odd thing was...
"OH, HOW ABOUT THIS! OR HERE!" shouted Discord, digging the tweezers in many spots of her body, until he touched a corner of the hole and Nova Dragon's nose lit up red and a buzzing sound could be heard somewhere. "Darn, touch a corner. This Nova edition of Operation is much harder!" he laughed as he held out the Operation board game box, having Nova on it.
"HELP ME!"
"I'm trying to, but you keep moving and making noise." He then put his hands on the blanket, looking down on her, his glasses reflecting light, making his smile creepier. "You want to know something? Where did the chaos disease come from?"
"You..."
"Oh, no. No, no, no. It's not from me, no. The one who gave it to you is, hmm, not sure who gave it to you. But the source is..." Discord shoved the tweezers into her chest and pulled out the small brown slime-looking parasite, almost looking like... "This universe version of me and the chaos slime! See, a long time ago, something bad happened in your universe, the draconequus kingdom, and the slime race. Instead of controlling them, like in my universe, the slime became parasites and killed the kingdom. Your version of Discord must have found the last remaining slime, become infected, and became this. Spreading all over the world. Sad, really; he was a great Discord. So, the chaos magic is what's killing you; you're all infected, and if you get it, you'll become just like him, having different or extra body parts, and your mind will become full of chaos, so..."
Nova's eyes widen, not believing what she is hearing.
"So, I removed it."
"...I'm cured?" Nova felt better, and her aura was gone too. She shouted with joy, "YOU CAN SAVE MY PEOPLE!? SAVE LAYLA!?"
Discord shook his head and placed the parasite in a small glass tube. "I can, but I won't."
Nova eyes went blazing blue flames. "WHY!?"
Discord shook the tube and looked at her. "Because this isn't how your story is meant to go. It's not my place to write your story." He pointed at her and said, "It's yours and yours alone. If I change it, the story might not go as it should. Heading down that one path that 'she' is trying to stop."
Nova was getting annoyed at him. "WHO THE HELL IS SHE!? AND WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"
Discord snapped his fingers, and Nova found herself on a blue road in blackness. She could hear Discord talking as his voiced echo within the blackness. "Your universe houses your stories. You are your own writer, and you can write however you want. There's no set path where your story goes. You are free, like I said," said Discord, showing the blue road branching out to different paths. "Different timelines are made for it, known as the time verse. But if I write how your story goes, " soon all blue roads became one and started to head down one path, which joined other color roads and became a spider web, a rainbow spider web, and in the middle is a growing black dead tree as it spread out slowly.
Nova looked at the web, seeing that her universe is connected to a lot of universes, and few of them are going down the same path. Except for hers, it's still free.
"It's why 'she' is fighting against 'her'. Fight against fate because she believes everyone in both the multiverse and time verse should have a choice."
"What does this have to do with me? I'm dying."
Discord smiled, appearing behind her. "True, but you have a ton of choices, but if I cure you here and now..."
"The path won't be mine anymore, right? And 'that'!" she pointed to the growing blackness in the web. "It will take it. I don't want that."
Discord nodded "That's what 'she' is fighting for. That's what the group is doing, but they don't know it yet. They're needed to not only fight Rainbow Sun Dawn but also..." Nova and Discord could see a bright rainbow spark in front of them. Nova couldn't make it out, but she could see the figure wearing a puffy rainbow jacket. "Save her. One more time."
Snap
Nova was back in the mess hall, and Discord was sitting across from her, eating a taco.
"You are needed for this battle, but when it's over, you'll return, sick and dying, and not remember what happened here. But I won't force you to come; it's your choice. Write where your story takes you."
Nova clutches her hands hard. "I'll be damned if I'll let 'that' take me and write my fate! I'll come, and I won't regret it. If I'm dying, I'll be happy knowing my choice is my own. My life is my damn story, not theirs!"
"Good, very good. Now, we can't waste time." Discord took out a needle, stabbed the parasite, and pulled the plunger, and the clear tube turned blue.
"What are yo-" but before Nova could say anymore, Discord stabbed her in the chest, and she could feel chaos magic returning, but it wasn't like before. She didn't feel sick or anything. She summoned her blazing fire and cold swords. "You returned the magic, but without the whole dying and going crazy part?"
Discord nodded "Like I said, you'll be needed in this battle, and we can't have you being useless, now can we?" He then snapped his fingers, and Nova wasn't wearing her medbay outfit and was wearing her military-like uniform dress. "Let's go. They're waiting." Discord disappeared, leaving Nova alone.
"Right!" She summoned away her swords and stared at her hands. "He's right. He's not the one who will cure the infected." She hurried out of the mess hall and headed where the group walked off too, and the lockdown was lifted and the shutters of the windows were opening. The morning sunlight hit the floor, and Nova stopped running and touched the window. She smiled and said, "It's Layla, isn't it? She'll find that dawn—the dawn that will bring a better tomorrow. It's not me. It's never been me or anyone else. It has always been her. She's the one who'll bring that dawn. That's her story, not anyone else's." She took a breath and ran again. "And I won't let anything stop or take her story away from her! Not even some crazy girl who wants to restart the multiverse!" She ran down the hall, passing steel doors as they're opening up, showing all the CI operators walking out with weapons and seeing Nova running. A rainbow-haired dragon in swat uniform and holding a red sword, along with a yellow pegasus knight with dark orange hair, took notice.
Before all this happened, Layla and the others entered the park but couldn't leave, as Discord wasn't anywhere to be found. So, this gave Midnight more time to train Amazement. Everyone did their own thing as they waited, but Layla and her mother watched the training.
"Draw that sword. Face your fears."
"I'm not afraid," said Amazement, not taking out the sword.
"Then draw it."
Amazement looked away, not wanting to, and Midnight sighed. Amazement just couldn't let go of her fears after seeing Wonder get killed by Rainbow Dawn. She could hold on to the hilt but nothing more. Midnight knew that fear and tried to get rid of it by training her, but it wasn't working.
"Foolish in training someone who can't overcome their own fears," whispered Nanna, just looking and having the same cold stare as Midnight.
Layla turned to her mother and said, "But didn't you once tell me that you were once a foolish person who was very scared, too?"
Nanna looked at her daughter and gave a small smile. "I was, but unlike her, I got over my fear by facing my past. Seeing it, overcoming it, and..." she patted Layla's head, "accepting it. The same goes with her. She's not facing her past."
Amazement kept looking away, her hand on the sword hilt, but she couldn't draw it. She saw the death of her love again and again. Never disappearing from her eyes.
"If she won't face her fears, how can she save anyone?" Nanna felt her hand being grabbed by her daughter, making her turn back to her and look into her warm eyes.
"Make your own dawn, make a new light, and create a new hope. Make a better future, a new tomorrow. even if it's not perfect or isn't the best. It's yours, and all those you want to share it with—that's the kind of story I want for everyone. I was called foolish for being a dreamer and thinking I could bring hope and peace between the infected and non-infected just by believing in myself and my friends. And I'm still a fool, even now." She turned and faced Amazement, still trying to face her fear. "But a fool who isn't giving up. She's the same. I can tell. I just wish I could help her."
Nanna smiled at her daughter, seeing how much she had grown and changed since coming into her life as a small child. "You will, and it's not by using brute strength or beating her fear out of her. No, you'll show her. Show her and let her see your story and the hope you bring. Maybe then..." She saw her daughter walking towards Amazement and placing her hands over Amazement's hand, which was on the sword hilt.
"What?" whimper Amazement, seeing Layla next to her and holding her sword hand. "What are you doing? Let go."
Layla gave a warm smile. "I want to show you something that helped me get over my fears and nightmares."
"I don't have nightmares, okay?" She yelled at her, but Layla didn't move or look away; she just gave her a warm smile. Amazement saw this and started to cry. "Sorry..."
Layla raised her hand over Amazement eyes, shutting them, and said, "Picture them. Picture the ones you love so dearly within your fears and nightmares. Picture them within the darkness."
Amazement did as she said and saw her friends, the ones she grew up with. All the kids and lives she protected over the years as a super hero, all her friends she made while in the Revengers, all those she wanted to save but failed, and then seeing Wonder...
"Now, make the sun rise for them, and they will make the sun rise for you. They will shine in your heart, showing the world that you are the light. You're the light of your world, and it's yours and yours alone. Now, draw the sword and fight. Fight for them. Bring a new dawn, ending the night."
Amazement did as she heard; she could picture Wonder and everyone being a bright dawn, and in return, she pulled out her sword, just as bright as a morning dawn. She was wiping away her fears and the image of Rainbow Dawn from her eyes. She opened them and started to cry.
"Well done," said Midnight with a happy tone.
"You did it," smiled Layla, letting go of her hand.
She couldn't believe it. Her sword is out and pointing at Midnight. Her sword blade slowly became a night sky and was filled with the star constellation of the great bear, Ursa Major. She turned to Layla. "Thank you, Layla. Thank you so much." She dropped to her knees and let the sword fall to the ground. She put her hands on her face and cried more.
Nanna could only smile as she watched this, but stopped as she heard her own voice next to her; it was Lunar.
"You taught your daughter well. She's filled with so much hope, like a morning dawn. The only way for that to happen is if someone teaches her that, as they also suffer through the same pain and sadness and never gave up."
Nanna turned to her counterpart and said, "You know what her name means, you freeloader?"
"No? Beats me," said Lunar, taking her sunglasses off. "Free loader?"
"It comes from the holy book of Skyros, the holy land of the Alicorns ; Layla means angel of night. An angel of the night that helps brings the dawn to the world, a bearer of the night and dawn. I named her after that; even at a young age, she was always like this but had such little faith in herself. Until she met her friends and those who were infected—those who saw her as an enemy. She saw their stories and vowed to raise their dawn for them, and in turn, the dawn was raised for her. That's how I knew my daughter would be the one to save the infected."
"And your husband?" asked Lunar, looking at her counterpart and seeing her expression change to sadness.
"As you said, someone had to teach her who had gone through pain and sadness but didn't have a chance to raise their dawn in turn. He was my dawn; I raised my dawn for him." Lunar got spook as a shadow creature, Crescent, appeared behind Nanna and snuggled around its master, sensing the sadness. "It's why I gave her his last name. Layla Dawn. My little dawn. I wish he could have seen his dawn."
Lunar put her sunglasses back on and looked at Layla, seeing how her mother was smiling and proud. She waved at Nanna. Lunar turned to her own daughter, Midnight. Who just stared at her and looked away. She turned to Nanna. "No matter where they are now, they're watching over our daughters and proud of them."
"Of course, free loader."
Both watched for a bit, but Lunar asked what she meant by that, soon learning that Midnight revealed her free-loading lifestyle to her counterpart.
"SWEETIE!" cried Lunar as she ran towards her, getting kicked away and past Nanna, who hated how there was a version of her like this in the multiverse.
"LAYLA!" shouted Nova, running into the park and out of breath as she stood in front of her childhood friend.
"Nova!? Why are you here? I thought-"
Nova interrupted her by raising her hand. "Discord, he..." Nova wanted to explain the whole thing, but she couldn't. This might change Layla's story in discovering the true reason for the parasites and their origin. "Nevermind. He removed the sickness for a while. I'm coming! He wants me to come, so you can't say no!"
"What? What's going on?" asked Spitflame, flying in with Light and seeing the weird group of people.
Light realized what was happening as she saw different versions of herself and Layla and remembered Twilight. "Shit! Again!? We're coming this time!" She prepared her sword on her shoulder.
Spitflame looked confused at Light but soon learned what she meant and placed her sword in the ground and kneeled down. "Yes, let me be your sword! Let me fight along with you in this out-of-universe battle."
Before Layla could say anything, Discord appeared between them. "Sorry, but the only person she needs is Nova and-" they all watched as Discord stretched his arm and dug into a bush, pulling out a red-coat grey wolf girl, holding a scrapbook and a camera. She's this universe Maudileena, aka Maud Pie, but known as Matilda, aka Project Red, a member of SWEEP.
"Red!? You need that tail-loving wolf girl," asked Light, pointing her sword at Matilda, who's staring at them with an emotionless look. "OVER US!?"
Matilda just stared at her, not responding. She looked away and taking a picture of Midnight Tail as everyone walked over.
"Why is she even here? I thought she went to the stations like the others." asked Spitflame, confused. A SWEEP member that didn't listen to the alarm when Nova forced Layla to take her out of her room and became very dangerous because of her aura.
"I just got lost again," simply replied Matilda, snapping a picture of Bolt Tail, who held it as she was kind of creep out. "Then they appeared, and I sent word to Nanna, and she came here as fast as she could." She snapped a picture of Plum Tail, who in turn took out a camera and snapped a picture of Matilda, who did the same.
Nova, Layla, and the others were all confused and turned to Discord, who only shrugged his shoulders. "This is beyond me. 'She' said, We need her." He opened the phone booth and crammed everyone inside, but it was getting super packed now as he pushed himself in and shut the door. "Okay, next stop! Rainbow Element Emblem Universe!"
Layal, who was pressing up against Nova, both blushing, heard him and smiled, "Eirika and Aero universe, right!?"
Discord nodded, making her scream with joy. The phone booth started to fade away.
"Screw that! I'm coming!" shouted Light as she hopped on to the phonebooth door. Soon, Spitflame joined her.
"Same. We're not leaving you, Layla!"
Layla smiled, but her smile became bigger as she saw 'her' jumping on as well, holding on to the two.
"MOTHER!"
Nanna could only smile as they all faded away. Heading off to the next universe.
End of Chapter Blue(1)
Author's Note
big arknights fan but had to stop playing. no more room in my phone :/
Gathering The Names Across The Multiverse
Chapter Blue(2): Queen Eirika Rainbow
Within the multiverse of MLP, magic always exists, even if the characters are humans or different creatures and there are no elements or cutie marks. The world is filled with magical people, animals, and many others. But in others, magical creatures such as demons are real. In one such universe, there's a Chaos Demon Dragon that is a world-ending monster that wants to wipe away all life so dragons can rule the world. This universe is known as the Rainbow Element Emblem.
Helios told them that one day a hero would appear, wielding both the sword and shield. And use their power to defeat the Chaos Dragon once and for all. So, the people of that world built a kingdom, known as the Kingdom of Equestria. It's where the royal family is. The Royal family, the House of Rainbow, is made up of the descendants of Helios first chosen hero, who fought by her side, and they've ruled over the people ever since.
The King and Queen, known as Clyde and Mildred, have a single daughter, known as Princess Eirika Rainbow, and her rainbow maned and blue pegasus horse, Aero, both of this universe, Rainbow Dash. Meeting and saving the last divine moon dragon
Along the way, they met many others, including this universe AJ and the other girls, and other side characters like Big Mac, Derpy, and so on. The four become a traveling army of colorful misfits and heroes. Each member of the army has their own reasons to help and has their story arcs and growth fulfilled, thanks to Eirika and Twila.
Even Eirika has her story arc fulfilled by the deaths of her parents and meeting the knight of Dawn, a title she gave to Layla Dawn, for which both girls made a knight oath pack with each other to save their friends from a sad fate. For Layla, it was saving Nova from the Chaos disease, and for Eirika, it was saving Twila from becoming a walking seal for the Chaos Dragon, being struck down to kill the evil dragon, and saving the world at long last. But some stories don't have happy endings.
On top of Mount Discord, Eirika army has broken through the cult army fortress within the mountain and finally beaten the Chaos Dragon, weakening him enough to seal him away as the underground temple started to fall apart from the fighting, but the problem was...
Eirika soon felt two warm hands on her cheeks, which made her look up, looking into the beautiful purple eyes of her friend, her love, and the one who gave her the strength and courage to face the Chaos Dragon, as her friend naked body showed the dark runes glowing and pulsing as it started to seal away the demon dragon like a vacuum cleaner sucking up dust.
Twila smiled at her friend, tears falling down her cheeks as she knew that her story would end here, no matter what. She needed to make her friend take that step forward—the dream they had of bringing peace between the dragons and humans. To end the chaos. Even if it meant that she had to die.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry," sobbed Eirika as she tried to hold her emotions in. "I made an oath pack with the Knight of Dawn, Layla, promising to save you, but..." she dropped to her knees. "I couldn't... I couldn't find another way to kill this damn dragon, and look at you now! Sealing the monster within you," she could feel her sword glowing and demanding it be used to slay the monster once and for all. "You're going to die. You're going to die because of me."
Twila smiled at her friend. "My friend, Eirika. It's okay; you didn't fail me or that oath. You tried everything in your power to find a way to save me, not just you." They both turned and could see all their friends and allies they had made on their long journey, each giving her a warm, sad smile as they all cried. They all did what they could, even Kuu, who held her tears in as best she could. "Thank you. Thank you all. Thank you, Eirika, for saving me on that day! Also, thanks to Rainbow Dashie for saving me from my crazed father when we were teleported into the Fallen City of the Void. Both of you gave me a reason to keep moving forward, to this very point where we are now." She sat on her knees as well and took Eirika's face, turning her head to look her in the eyes once more.
"Don't cry, princess. Don't cry." She smiled and leaned in, giving her a kiss on the lips.
Eirika could only close her eyes and cry as she felt the warm, soft lips against hers. When the two pulled away, she couldn't hold it anymore and hugged her. She never told Twila about her feelings, not wanting them to get in her way. She didn't want her to feel obligated to return her feelings because of their friendship. All those times when Twila flirted with her and made passes at her, Eirika ignored or brushed it off. She didn't want to get hurt.
Now, she couldn't hide it anymore and let it out. "I love you. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I should have said it sooner."
Twila could only smile at her and rub her back. "It's okay, Eirika. I understand. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much." She smiled and held her tight. "I love you too, Eirika. Thank you."
They pulled away as Twila lowered her head to Eirika, who stood up and pulled the rainbow blade out of the ground, holding it over her. She knew it was time and had to do it. She had to be strong for her love. She looked at her and knew she was smiling at her, showing that she's okay with this.
"There has to be another way...something we couldn't see..." she whimpered as her hands gripped the hilt tightly and she shook.
"There isn't. Just let me go. Let me die. Don't let my sacrifice be in vain. Don't let the Chaos Dragon break free and cause destruction and death. If this is where my story ends, so be it. I saw enough....saw...seen..."
The blade swung down, and the demon dragon and the girl died that day.
"That's why I hate stories like this. Always so fucking cliche and depressing. In how many stories has a girl died because of some stupid dragon bullshit!? Too many, I tell you." said Discord, playing on his handheld console and beating the last map as he was between the others within the phonebooth.
"I refuse to believe this..."
"Huh?" he looked across and could see Layla crying and trying her best not to break down.
"I refuse to believe that Eirika couldn't save her friend! We made a promise that we would save our dear friends." She could feel Nova's hand on her shoulder, trying to comfort her. "I refuse to believe that story you told us! Eirika must have saved her!".
Discord closed his eyes and handed the handheld to her, showing her the ending of Rainbow Element Emblem: The Sacred Blade. Layla could read the characters ending stories, seeing Eirika becoming queen and ruling over the kingdom of Equestria. Layla unleashed her chaos powers, her hands covered in black crystals, snapping the handheld in two.
"NO! She would relinquish her title as Queen! THAT'S BULLSHIT! THE OATH SHE MADE, SHE WOULD SWORE TO GIVE HER TITLE UP IF SHE FAILED!"
"Layla..." whispered Nova, never seeing her friend be like this before.
"I refuse to believe this! YOU'RE LYING! LIAR MONSTER!"
Heat, who was above her, patted the girl's head. "Layla, calm down. You shouldn't release your powers within this small space."
Layla and the others heard knocking from behind her, seeing Nanna looking at her daughter with worry.
"Thank you, mother, and I'm sorry, everyone. It's just...it's just so unfair for someone like Eirika to be forced to kill her friend like that. I hate it."
Nova patted her shoulder. "I understand, and I'm with you on that. Let's see if Discord is really telling the truth or not. Speaking of which," She faced him. "When are we getting th-" She was cut off as the phonebooth landed within a huge garden of sections of giant castle walls.
Everyone stumbled out and fell onto the grassy ground, groaning and getting their bearing.
Discord lowered his head to Nova, who was face first in the grass. "We're here," he said, smirking as he could hear Nova growling at him, which made him disappeared.
Layla got up and couldn't believe what she was seeing. It's a wonderful and breath-taking sight of the garden. It's filled with many types of trees and flowers. All the flowers she knew from her universe and others that she had never seen before. She could see statues of various knights, wizards, warriors, and other classes, but one caught her eye; even the others took notice.
Bolt and Berry flew towards the large statue and then looked at Layla and back at the statue.
The statue was a knight wearing a cape and holding her sword to the sky, which was Layla herself. The others walked over to it and started to check it out.
"Hey, is that really you, Layla?" asked Spitflame, turning to her squire. "Because having a statue of oneself is the highest honor a knight can ever achieve in their career." She looked back at the statue, amazed to see it made out of crystals and this world diamonds. "This thing is expensive and huge. Whoever built this is a high-ranking noble."
Grape could see the statue's base and started to read the inscription. "To the Knight of Dawn, known as Layla, who's light shall shine down on the world and bring the dawn to others. May your light and courage always guide us. May your blade cut the path and open the gates. And may the world be yours, Layla the Knight of Dawn." Grape and the others looked at the statue once more, as Layla couldn't believe Eirika made her feel so embarrassed.
Plum hovered around the statue until she noticed someone not too far from them and felt like she had seen this person before. She felt towards the cloaked girl and asked her who she was and why she was here.
"Me? I'm just waiting for someone here. It's the sixth anniversary of the death of the Chaos dragon and the mage that sealed him away, as Queen Eirika has declared a day of celebration and remembering the deaths of those that gave their lives in stopping the demon dragon." The cloaked girl answered, turning to the small chibi Alicorn magical girl.
Layla and the others heard the girl's words and quickly ran over to her. The cloaked girl faced them, asking the group who they were and what they were doing in the royal garden.
"We are...travelers. I'm Nanna, the second-in-command of a group known as Canterlot Island. This is my daughter, Layla." explained Nanna, who placed her hand on her daughter's shoulder. "You said just that a mage, who sealed the demon dragon away, had died; is that true? Could you tell us the story?"
The cloaked girl wasn't surprised when she heard the name but nodded her head. "If you wish to hear the story, I'll tell you."
After the story was told, Layla clutched her cloak, filling with so much rage and disappointment in her friend, Eirika, for not only killing her friend but also keeping her title as Queen and never giving up it like she had sworn in their oath pack.
"I can't believe she didn't keep her word to our oath pack! That cowardly bitch!"
The others were shocked by Layla's outburst; they had never seen her act like this, especially her mother and close friends.
"Layla..." whimpered Nova, knowing that her childhood friend was beyond hurt by what she heard.
"She became a coward and a liar! What kind of friend is she!? Going against the pack we made!? Where is she!?" demanded Layla, as her crystal wings appeared. "I want to see her. NOW!" The air around her became heavy and tainted with chaos magic.
The cloaked girl just stared and pointed to the main selection of the castle ahead of them.
"She's in the throne room; she's listening to the citizens, who wish to see, gives thanks, gifts and speak to her as the festival is underway."
Layla growled, feeling disgusted by the thought of people giving thanks and praise to a coward and a liar. She spread her crystal wings and flew to the castle, not caring if the guards and knights would see her.
"Lala!" shouted everyone as they went after her, leaving the cloaked girl alone—well, not really.
As Dr. Amazement was running off, she felt her cape being pulled and fell backwards, landing on her back. She could see Midnight looking at her with her classic cold stare.
"...more training?" asked Amazement, gulping hard.
"Yes."
Amazement sighed, stood up, and faced her. She is drawing her sword and wondering what their lesson will be.
"You might be wondering what's next, since you could finally draw your sword without fear. You still have a lot to learn, and one of them is truly facing your fear."
Amazement lowered her blade in confusion. "What? But I already faced my fears, right?"
Midnight nodded her head. "You did, but you have a long way to go before truly facing your real fear. You need to face the thing that scares you the most—the thing you will face once more in combat. When you return to facing Rainbow Dawn, you must be ready or you will die. Do you understand?"
Amazement was confused at first, but then nodded her head.
"Then get ready."
Amazement watched as Midnight did a few hand signs, and her horn started to glow as she did a last sign, and the world around her started to change and wrap itself together. She soon found herself in a dark place, with the smell of ash and fire. She turned, and she could see a wall of flames closing in, trapping her.
She turned around and could see Midnight was gone and a shadow figure walking towards her. That's when her heart started to race and her body started to shake with fear as the figure walked out of the flames and smiled at her.
"You," whispered Amazement, staring down at Rainbow Dawn, who unleashed her slime monster from her chest and just kept smiling at her.
"Yes, me," she said, licking her lips, and the slime monster did the same. "I hope you put up a better fight than your dear Dr. Wonder did."
Amazement started to sweat as she wanted to run as Dawn walked closer to her, wanting nothing more than to end her.
Amazement shut her eyes and waited for the pain—to feel the teeth ripping through her flesh.
Curious, she opened her eyes and could see that she was surrounded by a bubble shield, and the slime monster was trying to bite through it but couldn't. She soon realized that the bubble came from her; she didn't know if it was on instinct or just by pure luck.
"Impressive."
Amazement turned to see Midnight next to her, as the bubble around them was starting to crack and her mana was running out to keep it stable.
"That was the first step. Realizing that deep down, you won't run from the things that scare you. Even if you did, it will come back and haunt you till you face them and overcome them."
Midnight vanished like dust in the wind, but her voice could still be heard.
The bubble shield caved and scattered as the slime monster got through and was going to bite the girl, but with a quick arm movement and magic behind it, Amazement swung her sword, and it shined like the starry night. Coming forth from the blade was the sleeping beast that hid within it, ready to strike down its master foes. It let out a mighty loud roar as it came out of the swing of the blade. It was an Ursa Major, made up of a night sky and star constellation as its main body. The Ursa Major roared and slammed its paw down, slicing the slime monster a bit and making it return to its master as both jumped back and looked at its new foes.
"It won't be like last time! You hear me! I won't let you strike down my great bear!" shouted Amazement, taking a sword stance, as her bear roared and stood next to her.
Rainbow Dawn chuckled. "Then let's dance and see who comes out on top!"
Both women clashed as the bear went for the slime, making the fight two-on-two, but only time will tell if Amazement can truly overcome her fear and be the one standing...
"A magical sensory illusion spell," said the cloaked girl, seeing Amazement is just standing there with her bear by her side, while Midnight is also just standing there with her hand sign still up. She could see Amazement was under the spell, but Midnight wasn't, as she turned to her. "When a great mage or higher power magical user controls the magical flow of a target's cerebral mana system, thereby affecting their five senses, this is frequently used to create false images or trick the body into believing it has experienced physical sensations such as pain. This is a high-level spell, and I only saw it once in my whole life. Who are you?" she asked, making Midnight narrow her eyes at her.
"Better question, who are you?" asked Midnight in return, making the girl stand up and holding a basket filled with colorful objects. Midnight could sense great magical energy coming from her, but there was something wrong with her. Like she was sensing great mana flow within the girl's head. "Please tell me your story. I have time to listen and I will tell you my own story. If that's alright."
The cloaked girl could feel the powerful magical aura around Midnight, which, at first glance, looked evil, but there was so much kindness within it that she felt safe enough to speak to her.
"Very well. I'm the Queen's Great Oracle, the one known as the Sixth Element Seer. I am the one who sees the future of this kingdom and helps the Queen and those close to her make the right choices for the people. Though my magic can't always show the future and I can't out right tell them the future, only give them hints," she walked over, sitting down and continuing her story and where she came from while Midnight just listened.
Meanwhile, everyone was giving chase as Layla entered the castle grounds and soar past confused guards and their commander, as they had seen her before.
"Was that the other worldly knight that our Queen befriended?" asked the guard, looking up at the girl flying over them.
"Probably. Better inform the Queen that her friend has arrived. Hopefully, she'll be able to attend the festival today, and whoa!?" shouted the second guard as Bolt and others passed them by.
"Don't just stand there; inform the Queen now! Also, the Great Diamond Shield!" ordered their commander.
"Yes, sir!" shouted the guards as they took off and left their posts, unknowing that a lone female figure was watching them from afar, hidden by the shadows of the castle pillars.
'...finally, something fun is happening again," told the figure to herself, grinning, and a dim green light came off her armor and from a horn on her head.
As the group were running, Plum and Lunar became tired of running and stopped, seeing their group disappear as they ran a corner.
"I'm getting too old for this," whispered Lunar, catching her breath.
"Yeah, tell me about it," replied Plum, also catching her breath.
Lunar looked at her mini-self and gave her a weird stare, making Plum ask why she was looking at her like that.
Plum looked away, not really wanting to say her age, as you shouldn't ask a lady her age, even if it's from another universe version of yourself.
"I'm older than you, okay!?"
Lunar looked at the chibi and just shrugged.
"Fair enough."
Plum flew on top of Lunar's head and looked at her with a big smile.
"Hey, let's ditch this little chase; we're not needed for whatever's going to happen. Let's look for dragons!"
Lunar looked back and smiled. "Good idea. I always wanted to meet a dragon from another universe. In my universe, they're a proud warrior race, so I wonder how different they are in this universe."
The two Alicorns started to talk about their universe dragons, but both could sense something coming from a dark hallway near them. Both could feel the great magical energy pouring out of it.
"You sense that too, right?" asked Lunar, looking at Plum.
"Yes."
Both slowly went over and looked into the dark hall, where they could see a large door with a magical seal around it. They could sense great magical energy coming from the door, and even Plum could see the great flow of magical energy in front of them.
"Wow. There's a huge amount of magical power coming from this door," said Plum, flying over to the door.
Lunar watched and could sense the energy coming from the door. She closed her eyes and could see something deep down below. She opened her eyes and was going to tell Plum what she saw, but she could see the little magical girl had somehow opened the door and was now standing behind the magical seal, waving at her.
"How?"
Plum shrugged as she answered her. "No clue; I just touched it, and nothing happened, so I just opened the door and stepped inside. Maybe it's just for show or something?"
Lunar just nodded her head, not really understanding the magic of this universe. She walked over and went through the magical barrier, joining Plum. They could see a large room and a staircase that leads down, and both could feel the greater magical energy flowing from it.
"Let's check it out!" shouted Plum, flying over, and Lunar followed after her, hoping it was not a trap.
Unknown to them, two glowing green eyes were checking them out and growling a bit as their master joined them. It was Nanna as she walked through the seal and looked down.
"Crescent, go and keep my daughter safe. Even though the group is with her, I don't trust this universe," Nanna told her faithful companion.
The beast growled and nodded its head, fading into the shadows, and its glowing green eyes disappeared, allowing Nanna to go down the stairs, but she stumbled a bit.
"The time limit is a half hour; I should be fine, and this won't take that long to get those idiots." She started to walk down the steps while leaning on the rocky wall. "If only the spell could last longer..."
Layla flew around the castle, and she was a little confused why there were no guards attacking her. Since Eirika and Aero first met her, they thought she was using evil dark magic and attacked her, but all the guards and knights she passed by just saluted her, and the few knights that did something were rushing over to the same area, making her believe that was the throne room is.
"Found you!" shouted Layla, seeing the doors and being able to see the guards and knights guarding them. She landed and was going to rush the guards and kick the door open when she was struck by something huge and sent flying backwards. Right into her friends, as they were close behind her the whole time.
"What the hell!?" shouted Nova, standing up and helping the others get up. "Are you okay, Layla?"
Layla nodded her head and could see a giant white shield made of diamonds hovering in front of the door and the royal knights, who were armed and ready for battle.
"Sorry, darling, but from sensing your dark magical energies, you are a threat to the queen, and I don't care if you are the first knight she knighted. I won't let you hurt our queen!" said a female voice with a hint of nobility and pride, which came from behind the shield as a white knight walked out, as her pearl polish armor glowed with a dim white light.
The woman returned the salute and walked over to the group, as the diamond shield hovered near and her spear was pointing at them.
Everyone was confused by what the Great Diamond Shield was telling them and even more confused about who the hell she was.
"Arrest? Why? And who are you?" asked Grape, pointing at the armored knight.
"The name's Great Diamond Shield, and I'm the captain of the Royal Knights and the shield of the Queen. And you guys are under arrest for threatening the Queen, so don't resist and come peacefully, or you will be killed."
All the girls were shocked to hear this and were ready to stand down, but Layla and her friends refused.
Spitflame drew her sword, and the light shined brightly around her as she took a stance. "Layla wants to see her old friend and pay for going against their oath pack. You should know this: breaking an oath as a knight is the worst thing a knight can do, and it's punishable by death. So step aside."
Light drew her own glowing red sword and placed it on her shoulder, smirking. "Or don't. Layla told us that Eirika is a strong knight, so it means the same thing with you, right? I want to go at you since you seem strong."
Nova summoned both her flame and ice blades and took a beast-looking stance, her eyes glowing like those of a wild beast. "Your queen hurt my childhood friend by being a coward! She will pay!" The ground shook from her magical chaos energy.
"Is that a dragon from another world? She looks like half human and half dragon—nothing like Kuu can do and that dark magical energy. Whoa," whispered Great Diamond, placing her shield in front of her and getting into her stance. "You're not getting past me! Royal Knights, protect the Queen!"
"Yes, ma'am!"
Grape could sense the tension in the air and knew the group was going to fight and didn't want both sides to go at it, so she flew between them and spoke.
"Stop; we don't have to fight. Sometimes battles can be resolved with words, not swords."
"No, there will be a fight here. I won't let anyone threaten my queen," said Great Diamond, making her shield glow and unleashing a ray of magical light, smacking Grape away and into Berry's arms.
"Grape!" shouted Berry, holding her and fearing she'd be badly hurt, but Grape looked at her and was confused about why she wasn't in pain.
Aaira took out her horn cutter. "Warning shot," she simply answered, and everyone else got ready to fight, but suddenly, they could hear a musical harp being played, and all sounds were just gone; only the music could be heard.
"The sound of the Queen's harp and sword, playing a melody," spoke a guard as they all got to their knees.
Before anyone could ask what she meant, everyone suddenly felt a cold chill and couldn't move at all. Not even Flash couldn't move, as she was giving it her all to break free.
"Girls?" called out Layla, as she and her friends weren't affected by whatever was effecting the group, but she and the rest could hear footsteps coming from behind the group.
Bolt and the others could see a female teal knight, her armor looking like emerald, also had one wing and horsetail attached (which Red noticed and followed her and grabbed it but felt disappointed since it was fake and just lay there). Instead of having a helmet, she wears a crown, which had teal crystal horn, with that, makes her look like a human woman with unicorn features.
"...huh?" said all four as the guards took out a chair and placed it behind the knight, who started to sit in different sitting poses, like she was trying to find the most comfortable pose for her buttocks and legs.
"Uh, what the hell are you doing?" asked Light, a little annoyed that her fun fight was interrupted and now confused to see this new knight acting weird.
"Ahhhh, that's the spot," said the knight, finally finding the right pose and feeling so much better. She picked up her sword, just held it in her hands, and looked at Layla and her friends.
"What's up?" asked the teal knight, confusing everyone, but Layla just stood there and was just glaring at her.
"Everyone, be on guard! She's using wind magic! Her crown is giving off a magical aura; it must be that teal crystal horn! And the sword she's holding has a similar magical aura as the crown," told Layla as she summoned her crystal sword as she and the others got ready for a fight.
The emerald knight smirked as she got more comfortable and spoke to them. "What's up? The name is Lyra, the Harp-String Wind Knight," she sighed as the Great Diamond glared at her. "I mean Lyra, the Queen's harp and her sword. Bodyguard to the queen, and blah blah, you get the picture, right? Anyway, you're under arrest or whatever is going on."
"Not until we see Eirika! Tell her Layla and her friends are here to see her!" demanded Spitflame.
Great Diamond slammed her shield into the ground. "No, with someone giving off such rage and dark magic, she's no friend to the Queen! Stand down, or we will make you stand down!"
Lyra could sense the dark magic coming from Layla and her friends. 'Whoa, so many powerful mage knights in one place. If I didn't know any better, this is where all the strong mage knights are gathered. Sweet!" She got up from the chair, and her sword floated in front of her. "PLEASE! Please don't stand down. It's been boring all these past six years since we beat that demon dragon. I'm starting to feel rusty. Let's fight and have some fun, huh?"
Layla looked at the smiling knight and sensed no hostility from her, but from the other, she was ready to attack. "She's just like teacher Light; they're just like two peas in a pod," she thought.
Light lowered herself a bit and smirked. "I like you! Let's have a duel of the ages, and let's go all out."
"Sweet!"
Lyra just stood there as her sword floated towards Light within a second, much faster than before, but Light deflected it with ease. As both swords clashed, Light could feel the wind blowing hard and the sound of the sword's music.
"You're not bad. But I'm not going all out!" shouted Light as her red sword started to glow and unleashed a flash of red stars, and she was gone.
Lyra smirked as she slightly turned around and could see Light ready to slash her, but she easily dodged each passing slash attack and jumped back as she held her blade and the sword started glow.
"You're really strong; too bad you're not the enemy, since I'm not giving it my all." told Lyra, as her sword floated up and it's body started to glow a light green and the air around started to make a cyclone, Light and others could see the wind around the sword taking the shape of a bird.
"Whoa, what's going on!?" shouted Bolt as the wind cyclone got bigger and the bird started to cry out.
"There was a reason I was called the Wind Knight," she answered, her eyes glowing teal, and she was going to unleash the attack, but she quickly sensed magical flames heading her way as two different blazing streams of flames almost hit her but were blocked in time by the diamond shield.
"Idiot, don't let your guard down, or do you want another repeat from six years ago? Isadora isn't here anymore and I'm not gonna keep saving you like she did..." scolded the Great Diamond as her spear glowed and her shield was releasing diamond dust, forming a cloud around her. Glaring down on Spitfire and Nova.
Lyra flinched and just nodded, and Light could see the sadness in her eyes. "Sorry."
Light was a little confused, just shrugged, and got back to the fight.
Nova roared as she slowly walked around Diamond, while Spitflame did the same thing, until both were on opposite sides of the white knight.
"Ready for round two?" asked Diamond, getting ready to attack with her armor glowing.
"Yeah, I won't let you get in our way!" replied Spitflame, as her sword glowing brightly and she put on her sunglasses.
Nova just growled as she showed her teeth and her dragon tail, whipping the ground, making cracks, and shaking the floor.
"Then die! Diamond Rain!" shouted the Diamond Knight as she slammed her spear into the ground and her shield started to release a storm of diamond dust, and the whole room was filled with diamond clouds.
Layla created a barrier, protected Bolt and the others from the attack, and then used her wings to block the coming diamond dust. She could just hear it hitting her crystal wings, and when the dust stopped, she slightly opened them but quickly covered her mouth as the dust entered her lungs.
"What the hell!?" shouted Spitflame, looking around and seeing her friends coughing, including Light, who was struggling to cover her mouth as she was still fighting Lyra and her wind bird. Spitflame could feel the dust entering her lungs, but she quickly burned it away with the flames within her, saving herself, and she could see Nova doing the same. "Sorry, but that won't stop us! Go, Nova!"
Nova just growled, her eyes glowing a bit, and started to use her fire breath, melting the diamonds as she blew a tornado of flames.
"Not again!" grunted Diamond, using her shield to block the flames, and the flames hit her armor, making her feel hot.
"Now, Spitflame!" shouted Nova, stopping her breath so she could see her comrade dashing towards Diamond, her sword glowing a bright orange.
"Haaa!" shouted Spitflame, her flames engulfing her sword as she slashed and created a massive stream of magical flame.
Diamond quickly looked behind her, seeing the incoming flames. "Wha-noooo!" but she was saved by Lyra, who jumped in and used her magical bird to blow the flames and Spitflame away.
"You okay?" but Lyra couldn't have time to hear the reply as she vanished as Light appeared, trying to slash her but missing. Light disappeared as well, trying to keep up with the wind knight, but it was hard as the wind bird would appear and try to tackle her or the knight herself would attack her.
"Damn, this girl is fast. If I wasn't using my sword, I would never be able to keep up," thought Light, appearing next to Lyra, who was busy blocking a barrage of Spitflame's magic fireballs as Spitflame was trying to aid her friend, but Light was blasted away by a grey light coming from a diamond spear.
As all this was happening, Layla was on the ground, coughing up blood as the diamond dust was still in her lungs. Bolt and the others couldn't move still, thanks to whatever spell Lyra put on them.
"Layla!" cried Lil Moon, trying her best to move but sitting there on the floor like a basketball.
Layla closed her eyes and tried to think of a way to expel the dust from her lungs, but she suddenly felt a cold feeling entering her mouth and into her lungs. Layla could feel the dust being removed, and soon, whatever entered her body, poured out like black water. It quickly reformed and stared at her.
"Crescent? Is my mother near?" She looked around but couldn't see her mother. "Oh, did she send you here?" She could see the shadowy Alicorn nodding. "Then you are here to protect me, right? Good, I need the extra firepower." Layla stood up, and Crescent became her shadow and stood behind her, roaring out loud. "Movement Zero!" shouted Layla as Crescent roared and its yell created darkness, covering everything until it was pitch black.
"Nanna here?" asked Light as she backed off and disappeared into the darkness, making Lyra unsummon her wind bird and grab her sword, looking around and seeing no light at all.
"This isn't good. I can't sense any magical energy at all. Diamond, if you can hear me, be careful!" told Lyra, getting in a stance and looking around.
Diamond heard nothing, as she could see Spitflame and Nova stepping back and vanishing into the darkness. She poured her magic into her spear and shield, making them glow bright white, but even with that, it couldn't pierce the darkness.
"NOW, DO IT NOVA!" ordered Layla, as Diamond could see her as the shield went up.
Nova jumped over Layla and landed in front of Diamond. With her blue flaming sword, she unleashed a stream of flames at her. With no time to block it, Diamond tanked the flames and screamed out in pain as the flames hit her and her helmet falling off as she fell on the ground.
"Damn, that's a strong flame. She's even stronger than Spitflame now," said Light, looking at her teammate and feeling the heat, making her back away a little as the darkness started to fade back into Crescent.
Layla took this chance and flew towards the door, but she could see Lyra standing there, blocking the doorway. To Layla's surprise, Lyra just smirked and opened the door for her, letting her enter the throne room.
"What?" asked Layla as she passed the Wind Knight, but she just winked at her and thanked her for curing her boredom. Layla turned back in front of her, seeing a long line of people waiting in line to hand their gifts to the Queen. The current first in line is a cross-eyed woman with blonde hair who was doing a dance as she held her bow and tried to shoot an arrow at a target but kept missing. Layla could see 'her' at the throne, just watching the weird dance and bow skills? She noticed that Eirika's sky blue hair was a rainbow color now.
Layla stood in front of the crossed-eyed woman, who stepped away as everyone watched her walk towards the Queen, who just stared at her, not saying a word.
"Eirika! How could you break our oath pack?" She walked up the steps while the guards bowed to her. "You liar! I hate you!" She now stood face-to-face with her, and Eirika's expression never changed. "Maybe I was wrong about..." Layla noticed something and sighed. "...and you're asleep." She could hear Eirika snoring and dispelled the magic around her eyes that Layla was sensing, revealing Eirika's eyes were shut. "...really?"
"Damn it," whimper Amazement, as she created magical water orbs and unleashed jet streams of water at the slime monster, hoping it would melt, but the slime just absorbed it and was bigger, and the monster was laughing at her, like it was mocking her.
While her Ursa Major was punched in the gut and torn in half by Rainbow Dawn, its starry night-shaded body unleashed out like blood, making her gag, and she was forced to watch it as it slowly faded away and back into her sword. It was now back to being one vs. two, and Amazement fears started to grow.
"You can't run, little girl," said Rainbow Dawn, walking towards her and pounding her fist together. "You won't escape this time since no one is here to help you like last time. You will die."
Amazement looked around and could see the wall of flames getting hotter as it got much closer. There was no escaping, no matter where she looked. Amazement could see Rainbow Dawn, and the slime were smiling at her.
Dawn smirk. "No one is coming. This is the end." She then pointed at her, commanding her slime monster to kill her. It just roared out and was charging her, dead set on eating Amazement.
Amazement knew she had to move, but her legs felt like they were glued to the ground. She just watched as the slime monster was coming towards her until she could feel her whole body becoming overwhelmed by her fear of dying.
"No! I won't die here!" screamed out Amazement as she tried to summon a magical...anything with her magic, as it was a last-ditch effort to escape or block the incoming monster and was ready to be swallowed whole, but she soon found herself back in the castle garden, with Midnight standing where Rainbow Dawn stood but breathing hard as the cloaked girl allowed her to lean on her.
"Midnight?" asked Amazement, looking around and then at her body, seeing the damage she took with her battle with Dawn. She could see there was no damage, nothing at all but she did feel so tired and could feel the sweat pouring out of her. "But, how did I get here?"
Midnight looked at her. "You did great, but there was still fear within you after you lost your summon. Next fight, try to fight without it. I think you are stronger than you look." The cloaked girl helped her sit down, allowing her to finally catch her breath and start recovering.
Amazement sat down, realizing what she was in. It must have been some illusionary spell, but a very advanced version of it, since she had never seen a version of it where you could feel pain. She looked at her hands and could see them shaking still. She closed them.
"Even though I fought my hardest and with all my heart, I was still scared. What will happen to me if I don't beat her, my fear?" She thought, not noticing that the cloaked girl was looking at her.
Meanwhile, Plum and Lunar finally reached the bottom of the stairs and found themselves standing in front of a large temple altar, where a single moon-like light shine on it. They got closer and realized what kind of magical energy they were sensing this whole time.
"It's another version of us." whispered Plum, as she flew around the dark blue sleeping dragon child, as she's hugging a sword that's in its scabbard, which has a rainbow orb within its hilt, and laying on top of said sword is a rainbow shield with four different color orbs but one was missing.
Lunar couldn't believe it. "It's us alright, but why is she here? Why is she holding a sword and shield?" She wondered, lowering her head next to the dragon, and could see the small smile on the child's face.
"...she's dreaming. About what, I wonder?" wondered Plum, touching the sleeping child's hand, until she felt the magical energy spike. The two could see the child's dreams, where the child is playing with her friends, Eirika, Twila and the group. The same group that joined her, Eirika and Twila, on their adventure to stop the chaos dragon, which made the sweet dream a nightmare, where the two could see the dragon child crying as some of her friends fell to the evil dragon in the final battle.
"Vaida!" cried Kuu, seeing her friend's death. "...no."
She looked around the battlefield, seeing more of her friends dying. She could see the large red knight, Big Matthew,
Kuu could only shed tears as she saw AJ
"Big Matt..." whimpered Kuu, looking away, but no matter where she looked, there was death and pain. Even above her, as Lyra was saved from a dark fire breath as a one arm Pegasus knight
Lunar and Plum were speechless as they watched the dragon child's nightmare. "Such a young child...fighting in a war and fighting such..." Lunar looked up, seeing the black, rocky dragon, as it gave off an evil aura. "...evil."
Plum slowly hovered her way to Kuu, seeing the poor child crying. "Is this what Berry has seen on her adventures with her's and Grape's counterparts? W-what is this?"
"Death."
Both turned behind them, seeing Nanna limping her way to them but falling on her hands and knees, like she was suddenly weak. Plum and Lunar went to her side and helped her up.
"This is death," repeated Nanna to Plum. "Midnight told me that you and your friends don't have death when you fight on the battlefield." She looked at her. "You only get knocked out if you're defeated. Right?"
Plum nodded, not sure what her counterpart was getting at.
"In my and others universes, this is what we call death. Caused by war or pointless fighting. I saw my fair share of seeing children on the battlefield, dying before they even got to live," she sighed and looked up, seeing the child's nightmare. "She reminds me of Red, who was a byproduct of war as the chaos infection started."
"Byproduct?" repeated Plum.
Nanna nodded. "When I found Red, she was a feral beast child, attacking anything and everyone. Breed to kill the infected by an underground organization, and their leader is only known as 'Grandmother'. Red saw so much death on the battlefield before I took her in, and even though she wanted to aid Canterlot Island in the fighting, I didn't allow her to." She could feel the tears building up. "I don't want any more children to lose their innocence on the battlefield, so I keep them close...but over the years, as they grew older, it stopped being my choice and became their choice. Now, they are fighting their own battles, just like this child."
They watched as Kuu stopped crying and became a full-on dragon.
"I won't allow this to stop me! I made a promise to Eir-Eir, Twi-Twi, and the others! I'll be strong and won't allow death to stop me from moving forward and protecting the future my friends died for! I'll win this battle for them!"
The dragon roared out and unleashed a stream of night shade flames at the demon dragon, which didn't do much damage thanks to its tough skin, but Kuu wouldn't allow her friends deaths to stop her, as she was going to fight the demon dragon to the very end.
"No matter how much we want to try to keep them from the pain of war, they'll join it anyway. All we can do is support them and hope they come back alive."
Plum and Lunar watched as Kuu continued her attacks but was starting to struggle against the demon dragon, and the nightmare started to get worse until they were forced out and back on the altar. They could see Kuu moving a bit in her sleep as her nightmare continued.
"And when they do return, they're never the same as before," finished Nanna, who closed her eyes. "We better get back to others. We're not meant to be here—whatever she's meant to be doing. Come."
As Plum and Lunar were going to follow, Plum couldn't take her eyes off the child, whose nightmares continued. "She won't be here forever, right?" She turned around and flew towards Nanna and Lunar as they started to head up the stairs.
After a few seconds, Nanna turned around, looking at the child once more. "Only if she allows herself to be trapped in the past and not move forward. Come."
Nanna led the two to the top and found themselves back in the hallway. Plum and the others could sense the magical energy again, could see it was coming from the garden, and headed there.
"WAKE UP!" shouted Layla, slapping Eirika, hoping she would wake up, but... "Wow, she's a heavy sleeper."
"She always was, even back then. She had a hard time waking up in the mornings," replied a female voice, making Layla look to the window and see Aero just hovering there, dressed in royal armor. "Layla! It's been years!"
"Aero!"
Aero landed inside and nuzzled Layla, while the people watched, not sure what was going on.
"So, what's the reason you are here?" asked Aero, stepping back.
"Well, it's the twins, but I need to know something."
Layla started to explain herself, while Bolt and others were free from Lyra's magical hold as she walked up to them.
As the group started to talk to her, Nova and her friends helped Diamond up but were shocked to see her face as her helmet fell off from before.
"Holy shit, you two burned her badly, like what the fuck!" shouted Light, seeing the scarred, burned face of Diamond.
Nova and Spitflame tried to defend themselves, as they knew their flame attacks wouldn't have done this kind of damage, but Diamond pushed them off and picked up her helmet and looked at it.
"This wasn't you; I tried protecting my friends from the demon dragon's cursed flames, and I'm forever cursed. My skin always burned; no magic could ever remove it. I don't blame you being scared of my looks." explained Diamond, putting the helmet back on and picking her shield and spear up.
Before they could say anything, Lyra yelled out loud, making them turn to her.
"What's wrong with you, darling?" asked Diamond, seeing Lyra summoning her sword and using it as a hover board and rushing to the throne room but being blown back, as they all saw Layla completely covered in black crystals as the Aero was blown back as well.
Light and her friends knew what this was. "Oh, she's pissed off! Like, really pissed off!" explained Light, as she and everyone watched as she turned to a sleeping Eirika, who finally woke and was shocked to see Layla.
"Layla? Is that...you? Oh sh-" Eirika quickly created a magical sword of light and blocked the crystal sword that almost cut her head off, but the force was so strong that the impact sent her flying out of the throne room and into the sky, while Layla followed right behind her.
"What happened!?" shouted Nova as she and the others entered the throne room.
Aero stood up and could see Berry and the others. "Girls!? Oh, I want to nuzzle you all right now, but Layla! Why did she turn into that form again? I just told her what happened in the final battle with the demon drag-" She was cut off as Lyra passed her and turned to her.
"That's the problem, you stupid horse! You told her the..." She looked at the gathering citizens who came to give gifts to their queen and she nodded towards the derp eye woman from before, who nodded back and started to order them to clear out, and they did, as they seemed to follow her. Lyra returns, facing the group. "You told her the cover-up story! I understand why because you were asked in public, but didn't you tell me about their oath pack?"
Aero was going to speak but realized what she had done and quickly flew out of the window to fix her mistake. While others asked what she meant by 'cover up'. Diamond spoke as she told them to follow her.
"Eirika saved Twila. She didn't kill her, but we had to tell the kingdom that. There are still Chaos dragon followers out there who will do anything to harm or use Twila for killing their god. So we had to report that she died. But this is why Twila asked us to go to the garden when the Knight of Dawn returns. Shit, I was so focused on protecting Eirika that I forgot what Twila told me. Hurry!" She led them back to the garden, while Lyra flew after Aero.
In the sky, Eirika blocked another blow from her enraged friend and was carried further into the sky. Eirika could see the rage and sadness in Layla's raging eyes.
"Layla, what's wrong!? Why are you attacking me, and how are you even here!?"
"YOU BROKE OUR OATH! COWARD!" screamed Layla, who unleashed nonstop blows as Eirika blocked them all.
Eirika realized what must have happened and tried to calm her down, but she couldn't find a time to speak as each blow made her grunt, until Aero blasted between them, allowing her to get on her Pegasus.
Aero spoke to their friend once more, hoping her words would get through, but Layla just unleashed a magical energy swing at them, blasting them far and near Lyra, who helped them recover.
"Eirika, it's no use! She's completely enraged by the cover story!" shouted Lyra.
Eirika got a better grip on Aero and nodded in agreement. "I can see that, but it's like Twila warned us, but in those riddles. The knight will set upon you. Lead her back to dawn... Aero, the garden! Go!" she ordered, kicking her sides, and Aero took off, with Lyra following right behind them.
Eirika could see the pure rage in Layla's eyes as the crystal wings started to grow, and she gave chase, following them back to the garden.
Back in the garden, Midnight and Amazement watched as the cloaked girl returned to her spot and seemed to be waiting for something. That's when Discord reappeared after disappearing like always.
"Oh goodie, everyone is returning."
Amazement wanted to ask what he might mean by that, but Midnight told her to be silent as the cloaked girl told her everything. That's when they could sense magical energy above them, seeing Layla giving chase to two people, and soon, the group came running along with Nanna and the others. Everyone gathered around as Aero landed next to the cloak girl, and Eirika jumped off and waited for Layla as she stopped in front of her. She pointed her crystal sword at her.
"Layla, please listen to me! What you heard was a lie! A lie to protect my dear friend, my love! I didn't kill her!" cried Eirika, wanting her friend to understand.
"LIAR!" shouted Layla, ready to charge at her friend, but she could see a cloaked girl from before as she walked and stood between them.
"She's telling the truth, and let me show you..." The girl rose her hand and took a colorful orb out of the basket, which was this universe element of harmony, and fused it with her magic, and a bright purple flash blinded everyone.
The flash faded, and Layla and the others found themselves in front of past Eirika, ready to kill Twila with the Rainbow sword.
"There has to be another way...something we couldn't see..." whimpered Eirika as her hands gripped the hilt tightly and she was shaking.
"There isn't. Just let me go. Let me die. Don't let my sacrifice be in vain. Don't let the Chaos Dragon break free and cause destruction and death. If this is where my story ends, so be it. I saw enough....saw...seen..."
Eirika swung down but was stopped as Twila grabbed her hands with all her strength, stopping the death blow.
"Twila!?"
"There is another way! If the curse markers are a seal...and destroying the Chaos dragon with the Rainbow sword, then maybe if I can move the curse markers to a single poin-ahhh!" she screamed as she could feel the demon dragon trying to break free.
"TWILA!?" Eirika dropped her sword and held her dear friend.
Twila looked at her and smiled as the black curse markers started to glow red, but they were moving to one spot on her body, and that was her eyes.
"Destroy my eyes! I couldn't focus in time and just thought of what you said...see... you can end the dragon and..."
Eirika started to cry as she picked up her sword and finished Twila's sentence. "And save you..." she sat Twila on the ground, raised her sword up again, and gripped the hilt hard again.
She swung, the blade of her sword slicing across Twila's eyes, ending the evil dragon and Twila's sight.
The memory faded, and Layla dropped to her knees, crying for many reasons: her rage taking over, not trusting her friend, Eirika blinding her dear friend, but most importantly, Eirika kept their promise of saving their friends. She watched as the cloaked girl removed her hood, revealing it to be Twila, wearing a bandana over her eyes.
A hour later, everything was fine, and Layla kept saying sorry to Eirika, who just laughed and brushed it off, but finally asked her and others why they were here, and they told her...
"Understood! I'll join you all again! Those kids should live a peaceful life! Whoever dares to ruin that will answer to me!" smirked Eirika, pointing to herself.
Twila held her hand and smiled. "You mean us? I'm coming with you this time. Plus, I want to see Dashie again."
Eirika was going to tell her no, but Lyra and Diamond step forward, saying they're coming too. She just sighed and turned to the group.
"Scratch that. We're joining you all! But I need to get something from the underground altar. The Rainbow sword is down there. I'll be right back." She was going to head off, but Nanna stopped her as Crescent returned to its master and blocked the Queen's path.
"You have a young dragon child down there! Explain yourself."
Eirika looked at Nanna, Lunar, and Plum and wasn't shocked to see Kuu counterparts. She answered her. "Twila saw into the future, a future where a young girl, going by a title called 'Sunny Knight', needs help from Kuu and needs the holy weapons to fight a future evil. Kuu, on her own choice and no one else, went to sleep and watch over the holy weapons, so when the girl comes to the altar in 400 years, she'll have them and aid the future queen of Equestria.".
Nanna ordered Crescent to let her through, but not before saying one thing. "She's having a nightmare. Hearing your voices will help her sleep peacefully again."
Eirika smiled and hurried past her with Twila in hand.
Discord took out the phone book and looked where their next stop would be, and he could see it was the Element Watchers universe. Wanda universe. He closed it and looked at everyone, speaking and getting to know each other more.
"I hope this peace can last forever, but it won't."
At the altar, Eirika could see that Nanna was speaking the truth, as Kuu was having a bad nightmare, and it was about the Chaos dragon. She knelt down and brushed her hair.
"Shh...shhh...everything will be fine, Kuu. We're here now," whispered Eirika, smiling and letting the young dragon child sleep peacefully, but not before she licked Eirika and Twila's faces and smiled.
"Eir-Eir and Twi-Twi! I love you," whispered the dragon girl as she lost her grip on the sword and shield, allowing Eirika to take them.
Eirika and Twila got on the altar, rested between Kuu, and hugged her.
"We'll be back, Kuu. Keep on having sweet and wonderful dreams for the future. Sunny will wake you up, and you'll meet new friends. Even with us long dead, we'll always be in your heart and memories," whispered Twila, kissing the child's forehead. "Never stop moving forward, no matter how hard it gets," she started to cry while Eirika held her hand. "No matter how hopeless it seems, we'll always be by your side. Now and forever, Kuu."
Kuu finally slept peacefully, making the two get off the altar, even though they didn't want to. They knew Kuu and the next generation were going to be strong and would fight back against whatever future threat lay waiting, even when they were long gone. Eirika held Twila as they watched Kuu for a little longer before heading up the stairs, back to the group, and leaving in the phonebooth.
"Eirika...Twila..." whispered Kuu as she shed tears and flipped over, sleeping peacefully.
End of Chapter Blue 2
Gathering The Names Across The Multiverse
In some universes, ponies are just normal ponies, while magical creatures and magic it selves are nothing more than fairy tales and myths. This universe is such a universe.
In one such lab, there was a doctor named Dr. Wanda,
Forced to leave Three behind, Six escaped the moon base and crashed landed on a farm, which Element Watcher recovered, and she joined them, using her mother's name, Wanda.
Years later, Wanda
"No, really. Who are you talking to?" asked Aaira, who's under Discord this time, and everyone agreed as well. "So, Wanda and these 'Element Watchers' are in a space war? What?"
Layla grew worried for her old friend. "I hope Dr. Wanda is okay. I thought for sure she'd finally bring her world a better tomorrow. But I don't know about this 'Null Sector' and 'Disharmony'. She never said anything about them before."
Discord removed his headphones, closed the script book, and sighed. "Can I finish reading my script just once!?" He turned to them and could see the colorful tunnel coming to an end as they arrived in the EW universe.
The phonebooth exited out of the rift and floated above a base that seemed to be part of a promontory and was surrounded by nothing but the sea. Everyone could see an orbital launch facility at the far end of the base.
"Wait, isn't this the Rock of Gibraltar?" asked Amazement.
Aaira took a closer look and agreed with her, as their home universe, their planet is earth and Equestria, so it makes sense to see very familiar landmarks. They were going to ask each other more about their earths, but Discord teleported the booth away as a missile flew towards where it was.
AJ used her HULL helmet visor and could see missile launchers pointed at them and firing again.
"Hey, we better get out of the dam skies or we're going to get shot down," warned AJ.
"Right. Let's move to that building," suggested Discord.
"What? Are you nuts?! We don't even know whose base this is," argued Amazement. "Plus, they're shooting at us! I highly doubt that they want us near or inside their base for the counts of the freaking missiles!"
"Just trust me."
Discord moved the phone booth closer to the base while dodging more missiles, and once the phone booth was at the edge of the roof, everyone jumped off and turned around in time to see the booth getting hit by a missile and flying off with Discord still inside.
"Oh, this isn't good! Maybe I should have teleported everyone to the roof? Welp, I can't cry over spilling milk!" He started to laugh as the booth jumped into a rift and vanished, leaving the group behind.
"WHAT!? How the heck are we supposed to get home now!?" screamed Aaira, who wanted to pull her hair out.
Layla placed a hand on her shoulder, telling her to relax and think about this logically. Aaira calmed down and took deep breaths while everyone looked around. That's when Nana could see a female figure coming out of the building. Whoever it was, she was like a pink blur, blinking at different spots ahead of her as she got closer.
Bolt smirked, as she could tell whoever it was, they were not only fast but using some form of element control but in a short burst. "Okay, everyone, don't attack her! We need to show her we're not a threat."
Everyone nodded in agreement, and the pink blur stopped, revealing the person was a pink-haired female human, this universe Pinkie Pie.
Everyone who didn't know Flash well enough, looked at her in shock and confusion, but the people who did know her could say one thing.
"Of course, nice going, Flash."
Flash grinned at everyone, but there was a pink flash, and everyone looked back and could see the woman somehow reserving her own time. She reappeared in front of Flash and pointed two futuristic pistols at her face.
The woman smiled and spoke in a British accent, "That wasn't very nice, you arsehole!" She fired her weapon, and Flash backed away as her face got hit by lasers. The woman was kind of shocked to see Flash barely hurt. "What's this? How are you still alive!? Bettuh, call in for backup! Merciful, I need a little help here!" she said as she pressed a device on her ear.
Flash grinned harder and pounded her fist together. "Wow, you look strong! Let's go at it!"
The woman was shocked to see Flash wasn't afraid of who she was. "You must be mad, girl! If I were you, I'd run now!" She blinks behind her, slaps a futuristic bomb on her back, and blinks away. Flash tried to touch whatever was on her back, but Midnight quickly appeared, pulled it off, and sent it flying above them. Within a few seconds, it blew up.
The woman blinks, lands near the others, and looks at them all. "Well, you sure are the most weird and colorful bunch of characters I have ever seen! I guess you're not Null Sector because you don't look all death robot-like or are not trying to attack me all at once, so not Disharmony then? Who group do you belong to, and what do you want?"
"We're sorry for that. She's...well, a fighter," explained Heat while looking at Flash, who was just waving at her but getting smacked by Midnight. "She's not the brightest."
The woman laughed and was going to say something, but her back-up arrived as another pink-haired woman exited the roof entrance. She's this universe Fluttershy,
"Tracker! Are you fine!?"
"I'm fine, Merciful. I thought I was a goner when that tall, blue girl smacked me, but can't kill someone who can rewind their own time!" Tracker smiled, making Merciful do a small laugh, and she turned off her staff as she scanned the group. "They're not so bad. Maybe the tall one over there."
She looked at Flash, who was being told to bow and ask forgive us by Midnight. "Nope, not at all. I don't think they're a threat," replied Merciful.
The two soon heard their radios going off, and their ears were being blasted by loud pony noises.
Before anyone could do anything, across from them, where Tracker and Merciful came out from, there was a long window above it, and out of nowhere, the glass scattered and leaping out of it was a purple pony wearing a lab coat and using a rocket jump device that looked like a pair of wings, and she landed in front of Bolt and the others.
"Girls!" shouted Wanda, rushing over and hugging her friends, while the others watched on. "I missed you all! It's been a few months, but look at some of you! Flash, you got much taller!" she looked over to Aaira. "Aaira, your hair got longer, and you seem to be in a bit of poor health. Is it stress?" she then faced Eirika and noticed her new armor and hair color. "Eirika, you look amazing!" She let them go, saw the remaining friends, and fixed her glasses. "Rest of you, you girls haven't aged one bit! Could it be that time flows differently in other universes?"
"Dr. Wanda! It's good to see you!" shouted Layla while hugging her. "How's everything in your world?"
Wanda pulled her away and fixed her coat, giving the same response. "Not good, but like always, never give up! What about you? How's your world doing? Did you find a cure yet for those chaos diseases?"
Layla shook her head, making Wanda sad as her ears went back, but they quickly went up again when Nova walked over and stood by her childhood friend's side, holding her hand.
"Oh, is this her? Nova?" Wanda walked around them and spoke as she studied the dragon girl. "I see no signs of the disease in her from what you told me. Is she cured?"
Nova used her tail to poke Wanda in the nose, making her stop walking around them. "Not really, just until we save the twins that you, Layla and the others saved."
Wanda was studying Nova Tail, but quickly turned to her. "The twins? Breaker and Blitz? What's going on?" she asked, with great concern.
"They're in danger," answered Amazement, who walked up to her.
"WHAT?!"
Merciful stepped up and spoke. "Whatever's going on, you can explain it inside then. Come, we have coffee and snacks, though you don't eat them, Dr. Wanda, since you keep eating nothing but peanut butter. I'm sure the others can enjoy our little snacks."
Wanda nodded in agreement and led her friends inside, with the two Element Watcher members right behind them.
After explaining everything, and now inside the main control room of the base, which is also acts as Wanda's bedroom, Wanda sat in her chair, rolled her way to the computers, and started to type using her psychokinesis from her horn.
"I'm coming with you then, but first, I need to send out a message to the rest of the EW team and tell them I'm going to be gone for a while." She stopped typing and turned to them, blushing a bit. "By the way, sorry about shooting at you girls. The base is automated to attack unknown and unresponsive aircraft. Last time, my home was invaded by Disharmony, and an old friend tried to kill me."
Amazement, who, along with the others, were eating the snacks that Merciful brought out, turned to her and gave a thumbs up. "It's fine. It makes sense that an unknown flying object in your airspace would set off any alarms. Besides, that idiot has probably already fixed the phonebooth and is coming back soon."
Wanda fully spun around, took a spoon full of peanut butter, and pointed at them. "Still, I'm sorry about that. In the meantime, you girls can look around the base and relax a bit." She was going to put the spoon in her mouth when she heard coughing, and everyone looked up, seeing a tire swing above them, and inside of it was this universe Rainbow Dash, Three, as she narrowed her eyes at Wanda. She has a collar device around her neck and a blue light turned on.
"Sis, you need to stop eating nothing but peanut butter! You're going to get sick or fat one of these days! I'll make you a proper meal, then you can finish eating that nasty stuff!" She shouted at her with the robotic voice.
"Three, I'm fine. Now go and finish your nap!" Wanda put the spoon in her mouth and had a blessed-looking face.
Three growled, swung around, and spoke. "Fine, because you never listen to me, SIS! Just you wait, I'll prove I'm not just an 'annoying kid' but someone who can help protect you and the others." She looked at the group and overheard everything. "Happy to see horses and ponies like us!" She jumped down, her metal wings device opened, and she hovered to the ground, landing in front of Aero, Bolt, and Heat. "You look just like me and my sister!".
Bolt smirk. "It won't be the first time for me. Least your not trying to kill me and calling me a faker or not an evil robot version of me." She could see Three confused look. "...never mind. So, your Wanda sister, huh? Nice to finally meet you! Name is-"
"Bolt the pegasus, I know. Wanda told us about her multiverse adventure after she returned to the moon and helped me save the Lunar base from those missile attacks. Some of the EW members don't believe her still, but after meeting Twilight and Twilah, the rest of us do."
They continued to talk while Tracker and Merciful were up top on the second floor, looking down at everyone from the railing.
"I can't believe Wanda and the others were telling the truth! The multiverse is real!" excitedly said Tracker. "This is so cool! OH! Is there a copy of me here? I ONLY SEEN COPIES OF WANDA, THREE, AJ, AND-"
"Calm down, girl! You're getting hyper again!" giggled Merciful, placing a hand on her shoulder. "You're almost like a young kid when you get too excited." She looked around at the group and noticed a floating pegasus-looking girl in a white dress. "I think I see my copy. She looks cute."
The tracker looked at the girl and sighed. "No fair, how come there isn't a version of me here!? I should ask Wanda if I can join her." but she could see Merciful giving her a look. "...or not. Yeah, it's best I stay and totally not join Wanda in saving the multiverse. Nope!" She started to walk off, whistling, making Merciful roll her eyes, and she knew Tracker was going to try and join.
Meanwhile, Amazement had her fill and walked over to Midnight, who was lovingly feeding Flash some snacks.
"Hey, after you're done, can we start training again?" asked Amazement.
Midnight, who was wiping some food from Flash's face, turned to her and gave her a cold stare like always, but Amazement got used to it. "Not now."
"But why? I mean, if we're going to help save the twins, I want to get stronger! Plus, I need to overcome my fears about facing that monster! So we shouldn't waste any more time."
Midnight finished feeding Flash and looked at her, knowing how desperate she is.
Amazement didn't understand. "How is getting to know the people here going to help me fight the monster that nearly killed me and took away my love?"
"Because if you let fear get the better of you, you'll only hurt yourself and get everyone here killed. You need to learn patience and that not everything will go your way. Just trust me on this."
Amazement sighed and walked away.
"If you say so."
Amazement looked over and saw the first group of people she would try to get along with.
"Sure," replied Eirika, who was sitting with Aaira and Berry.
The young girl sat down next to Eirika and tried to think of something to say, but her mind was blank. The three looked at her and then at each other.
"So, you're a...mage, right?" asked Aaira, trying to start the conversation.
"Uh, yeah, a mage but turned superhero."
Eirika smiled. "So, your universe has magic too? That's amazing!"
Amazement nodded and smiled, happy that someone was interested in her. "Yeah, though not everyone can use magic. Most people are just born with a gift. Just like other super heroes in my world. Sunset Spider is a good example."
Berry munched down on a cupcake and felt like she had heard that name before, but she brushed it off as she asked her a question.
"By the way, why are you with Discord? Bolt told me that you were with him, but she never really asked you or him why. What's the story there?"
"Discord and me..." Amazement started to think back, remembering how Rainbow Dawn killed Dr. Wonder and how she only escaped thanks to her. Discord needs her because she knows a few other universe indexes, their numbers and the location of the worlds. She remembers her love talking about teaming up with a group from another universe, and hearing Flash talking about Wonder, she realized it was them. She couldn't tell them the truth about what happened to their friend, as it might be too soon to tell.
"Discord needs my help in finding some universes, and Rainbow Dawn killed my..." She couldn't finish as the pain and sorrow of losing her love were coming back. She felt a small hoof on her shoulder and looked up, seeing Berry smiling at her.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to bring up bad memories." Berry flew back a bit, allowing Amazement to take a deep breath and regain her composure.
"It's okay. We all lost someone. I guess you and your friends lost someone too, didn't you?"
Berry sadly nodded and flew down to sit.
"When we were facing off Bre-" she coughed, correcting herself. "Blitz? Or was it Braver? Anyway, I saw my friends here die—well, not really, as you can see, but at the time, I thought they did die. I also lost Tank as well, soon after." Berry tried her best to keep her composter.
Eirika looked over to her own group and back to Amazement. "I lost a lot of good friends in the final battle against the Chaos Dragon. Some of us blame each other for their deaths."
Aaira, who was drinking some coffee, placed the cup down. "I lost the love of my life and friends to the Pillar and Changers. It's been a few years, but it still hurts, you know?"
Amazement could see that these girls were like her in losing a loved one. She wanted to ask them something—something that's been bothering her ever since Flash told her about giving second chances to people who hurt you.
"I have a question. Is it really worth it?" She could see them looking at her with confusion. "I mean helping those who have done horrible things to you, like taking away your love? It seems some of you had to kill whatever took away your loved ones rather than give them second chances."
Aaira looked down and thought about her dead lover, then looked over at Enmity, who floated over to Merciful, and both started to talk. Even though they look completely different, she can only see Faye in them.
"Changers were a hivemind alien race hell bent on killing all life in my universe. They couldn't be given a second chance, but..." she looked over at Lil Star, who was floating around Twila and talking to her. "One was different, and after saving the multiverse and the twins, I got to know Star more and let her in. She's a Changer, but a good one. Even though she tormented me by being Faye, I forgave her and gave her a chance because she wasn't like them; she showed me that."
"I see. What about you, Eirika? If you don't mind me asking."
Eirika closed her eyes and answered her. "Chaos Dragon couldn't ever be given a second chance...but." She opened her eyes and gave a small smile. "Some of my friends were on the dragon cult side before joining my side. They had their reasons, from being forced to or being promised lies to help their families. It wasn't until I and others started noticing them in other battles that we started to talk to them and understand them more."
Amazement thought about what they said, making her wonder about herself. It wasn't until Berry answered her as well.
"We were only a six-member team, but after I returned from my adventure with the girls here, Grape told me that Plum wanted to join our side. To be honest, I was against it at first, since she was the bad guy we had been fighting for a few years now." She and the rest looked over to Plum, who's talking to her counterparts and boring the two about Kaiju-related stuff. "When I got to know her, she really wasn't that bad and just wanted to share her love for giant monsters, and she even understood that the evil things she did were wrong. I gave her a chance, and she proved to herself that she's one of us now. Though she's still learning to be a magical girl for peace."
Berry then turned back to Amazement, and she and the two other girls gave her a small smile together as Berry spoke again.
"We also gave the twins a second chance at life, after learning their sad fate and how Blitz wanted to die to pay back their sins of killing their universe and her parents. I'm glad we did, and that's more than just worth it; everyone can change for the better. You just need to hear them out because some people aren't truly evil."
Amazement clutches her fists, as she knows Rainbow Dawn is one of those people who can't be given second chances. She killed her love; she couldn't forgive her. She stood up and thanked the girls for the talk.
"Thank you, all of you. It helped."
Eirika and the others smiled at her as she left. Eirika then turned to the others, giving them the same look that they were giving her. They could tell that Amazement didn't believe what they said about people getting second chances.
Amazement walked out of the building and found herself outside, overlooking a tram track that led further into and around the base. She could see Three, Bolt, Heat, and Lyra out on the platform, talking about something. When she got closer, she could hear what they were saying.
Three necklace devices glowed as she spoke. "You three are THAT fast?"
"Of course, in my base form, I can reach the speed of sound!" answered Bolt, using her wing feather to rub her nose.
Heat giggled a bit before she answered her too. "I'm not as fast as Bolt here, but I can keep up by jumping higher places as short cuts. All thanks to my power over flames." She could hear Lyra whistling in amazement.
"Really? You can control flames? Just like Eirika told us when she returned." Lyra sat on the edge of the platform but tried to get into a comfortable position. "Maybe you can show us? I can control the wind thanks to my magical armor and this emerald horn that was crafted from the Air Emerald stone," she said, tapping the said gem that was on her forehead, causing it to glow as the wind blew, blowing Lyra's hair.
Amazement stopped and was in thought. If these girls are that powerful and have such unique gifts, they wouldn't allow second chances to those who hurt them, right? She didn't know if they had gone through the same thing she has and wondered if they were like her in not believing in second chances.
Amazement waved at them as she arrived with the group. She asked them the same question and became surprised by their answers.
"I never had to give someone a second chance," whispered Heat, putting her hoof under her chin.
Lyra scratched her head and answered. "Same here. Never had the need to. Eirika and others did, though; I'm just a knight. Point me to the enemy, and I'll deal with them, killing them or not."
Bolt looked at her with confusion, wondering why she would be asking such a thing. She had her own answer, though.
Amazement couldn't believe it; even Bolt was saying the same thing. "Even when they hurt tons of people or even killed!? Do they still get second chances?"
Bolt nodded. "Of course! They have their reason, even if they didn't say it. Some have family to care for; others didn't know they were being used or tricked. Some felt guilty and regretted their actions and wanted to make amends. So I gave them a chance, because I'm not that type of person who will turn my back on them, especially on people who have suffered."
Amazement couldn't understand this and didn't want to; she knew some people couldn't be saved. "All of you are so stupid! If someone murdered innocent people, they're nothing more than a freaking monster, they don't deserve second chances."
Bolt was shocked and taken back from her outburst, and she saw Amazement walking away. Heat and Lyra didn't say anything, not wanting to make her feel worse, but that didn't stop Bolt, as she dashed towards her and stopped her.
"Look, clearly something happened to you, and it has to do with Rainbow Dawn, doesn't it? But whatever happened to you, you need to let it go! I know you're still hurt and in pain, but you can't allow yourself to let this hate and anger take over. If you do, you'll become the monster you think the person who hurt you is." She reached out her hoof, hoping Amazement would take it.
Amazement could hear her voice saying those things, and it made her sick. "NO! YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND! Rainbow Dawn...is not worth saving!"
Before Bolt could ask why, Amazement drew her sword and pointed it at her face. "Stay back! You wouldn't understand; you're just like those fools, thinking she can be saved! She isn't like the twins you saved; Rainbow Dawn is not like them! She doesn't deserve a second chance, and I won't give her one, not ever!" She hoped Bolt would back down, but to her surprise, Bolt didn't and just smirked at her and waged her wing feather like a finger.
Bolt watched as Amazement was ready for a fight, while others were going to step in, but she stopped them. "It's okay; she needs to blow some steam." She then took a ready pose and looked at her. "Fine, it's been awhile since I've been in a tussle, and I can tell you're hurting. So if you want to fight me, then so be it!" She became a rainbow ball and started to revve up her spin dash attack, but Amazement quickly created a barrier just in time as Bolt launched forward and smacked the shield.
She could hear Amazement scream out in rage as she bounced off the shield and saw her create more of those shields and throw them at her like Frisbee, making Bolt dodge and counter with her homing attacks. She could tell Amazement was holding back, and she was kind of glad she was, as she could tell that Amazement could be a tough cookie if she went all out.
Bolt opened her wings, flew above Amazement, and started to spin around, creating a large tornado. Amazement countered with a magical wind spell that blasted the tornado away. Bolt landed and rubbed her nose in smugness, enjoying the fight.
Amazement could see that smug look and grit her teeth in anger, making her rush towards Bolt.
Bolt saw Amazement coming at her, just gave her a serious face, and dashed forward. In a blink of an eye, Bolt was already in front of Amazement and slide kicked, making her go flying and rolling across the ground, until she skidded to a stop. Bolt turned to her, still with a serious face.
"I appreciate that. I really do."
Amazement could hear her, still in shock that she was beaten in one hit, as Bolt continued.
"It's who you are. It's what you believe in. That's fine. I don't know your full story, so I can't really judge. But I can't let you kill anyone." Bolt flew up to a flag pole and stood on the tip of it as she watched as Amazement stood up and looked at her.
"YOU AND THE OTHERS CAN'T BE THIS NAIVE! NOT EVERYONE CAN BE SAVED! SO WHY!?"
Bolt could see the anger and hate in her eyes, and she knew what it was. It was the same look that Upsurge gave her.
Amazement didn't respond to her, as she started to create a few barriers around her and started throwing them at her. Bolt once again dodged and countered her attack, making the girl more angry. But Bolt kept talking.
"I've made peace with enough enemies to know there is a better way." Bolt, appearing in front of Amazement again, but instead of attacking, she just smirked at her. "So I'm willing to chalk this up to 'a rocky start' and let us have a do-over. If you will?"
Amazement stepped back and spoke in confusion. "Just like that?"
"Just like that."
Amazement tsk loudly and walked past Bolt. "This won't change my mind. If I'm given an opening, I will kill her. No talking and no chances."
"Nope! I won't let you take that from anyone! You can choose to be a problem. Which means you choose to get a whoopin' from me and the others!" Bolt replied, not looking at her as she walked away and into a nearby building.
"Bolt!" shouted Heat as she, Three, and Lyra rushed towards her. Heat looked at the door that Amazement had entered and spoke to herself. "Will she be okay?"
"That's the real problem with giving people a choice—a chance. You can't stop them from making the wrong ones and wasting the chance they were given." said Bolt, crossing her arms and sighed. "Hopefully, Midnight will get through to her and make her understand."
Both girls started to talk to Bolt while Three looked at the entrance and hurried to it, hoping to catch up with Amazement.
Amazement quickly ran down the hall, not wanting to deal with anyone right now and wanting to be alone. The hall is completely empty, with only the buzzing sound of the lights and the echo of her shoes hitting the floor.
"Stupid. Stupid. Stupid," she repeated, slamming her fist into the wall, denting it a bit. "Why are they trying to protect her?! We should be trying to kill her! She's too much of a threat to the multiverse! But no, they want to protect her and give her a second chance! I won't stand for this."
She didn't see or hear Three following her, making sure she didn't lose her, and making sure she's alright. She wanted to say something to try and make her feel better, but she knew this wasn't the time and that she had to find a way to calm her down.
"I'm going to kill her, and no one is going to stop me."
Amazement returned to walking down the hall but stopped as she heard someone walking behind her. She turned around and could see Three standing there and looking at her.
"What do you want!?" she asked, not wanting to hear another stupid take on giving Rainbow Dawn a second chance.
"You're a good person; I know you are."
Amazement froze, her words echoing in her mind. She didn't know how to respond to that as Three walked closer and stopped, looking at her with a small smile. Repeating what she told her.
"You're a good person; I can see it, just like my mother. But you don't believe in second chances; I know why. Something happened to you, and Rainbow Dawn is the reason, isn't she? And if you can't forgive her for whatever she did to you, that's okay. Those are your reasons, and we won't force you. But please, don't be a killer."
Three could see the tears starting to build in Amazement's eyes as she continued.
Three put her hoof on Amazement's hand. "Like I said, you remind me of my mother. Come." She led her to a door and led her inside.
Amazement could tell the room was Three's bedroom, as it was filled with flying ship models, blue prints of a flying wing device, and a bed hanging from the ceiling.
Three walked over to a bookshelf, took something, sat down on a bean bag chair, and patted the other bean bag next to her, offering a seat. "Sit, it's okay."
Amazement hesitated but did so as Three spoke again.
"This is my mother." She handed it to her, making her realize it's a photo.
"I...Discord was telling the truth; it's Dr. Wanda, correct? The one who tested on you, and...ah, it's why Wanda is named after her. She was truly like a mother to you, right?" She asked, hoping she's right and didn't hurt her.
Three nodded and took a deep breath. "She is such a great and caring woman. She cared for all of us, the test subjects, and treated us as her own." Her face became filled with pain as she started to remember seeing her 'sisters' dying from the gene therapy, leaving only her and Wanda alive.
Amazement noticed the pain in her face and asked. "What happen?"
"I can't; it's still too painful for me." Three took a breath and spoke again. "Living with her was such a wonderful experience; we loved living with her and being treated as daughters to her, but then the other test subjects rebelled against the scientist and the rest of the crew of the moon base. They took our mother away, and after escaping the room that my sister and I were in, we found the whole crew and our mother..." Again, Three face became filled with so much pain as her body started to shake, as she remembered the dead bodies floating past the window and seeing their mother's lifeless body drifting past the window, as Wanda and her were calling out to her.
Amazement knew that pain and felt the same when she lost Dr. Wonder to Rainbow Dawn. She could hear Three speaking again.
"Afterwards, Wanda left the moon as the escape pod we made together went into launch mode somehow, leaving me behind and stranded on the moon base with the ponies and horses that killed my mother." Three looked over to her and held her hooves on her chest, looking at her with sad eyes. "And before Wanda left, she told me something, and I hope you'll listen."
Amazement looked at her and said nothing as she waited for Three to continue.
"You need to stop and think. I know that this 'Rainbow Dawn' person hurt you, and I understand the pain and hate you have towards her. But please, I beg you. Hear her out—it's like what Wanda told me. Even though the moon test subjects killed my mother and the rest of the staff, I understand why they did it. We were test subjects; we were nothing more than lab rats, and they hated being treated that way. So they took a chance and took back their freedom. I can't say I don't blame them, but I still wish they didn't take things too far." Three looked at Amazement and could see her rage building all over her face, as she could tell that whatever Rainbow Dawn did, it must have been very bad.
"Wanda always said, 'Second chances are important. Without them, no one can heal, move on from the hurt and pain they feel and created, and be a better person.', Even if Rainbow Dawn killed someone you loved, just listen to her, and you'll understand. So please don't be like them and take the chance. It will make her a better person, I promise."
Amazement didn't say anything as her tears finally broke and she started crying.
Three could see the rage and hurt in her face and knew there was nothing else she could say, as Amazement cried even harder and just sat there as she let go of the photo, showing young Three and Wanda in the arms of Dr. Wanda.
It wasn't long before Discord returned with the phonebooth, but the group was confused to see a red phonebooth appearing above it, and two older men opened the door and spoke to Discord.
"Need anything else, my groovy draconequus?" asked the man, wearing a blue shirt.
Discord was suddenly wearing a rock star outfit and holding a guitar, and he spoke to the guy in the same accent as him.
The other man, wearing a pink shirt, spoke as they kept rocking out. "TOTALLY!"
"Alright, Discord, cut it out," said Midnight as the group stood by Discord and the phonebooth. "We don't have time for this."
Discord stopped playing his guitar and sighed. He waved goodbye to the two older men, who waved back and entered their own phone booth, which soon disappeared. Discord opened the booth, allowing everyone to get in, but Aaira whispered to Heat.
"...should we ask who those two guys were just now, or?"
Heat shrugged, not sure how to answer that.
The group very slowly got inside, as they were trying to make room for each other. Discord could see that there wasn't enough space and just smirked.
Meanwhile, Wanda put on her jetback wing backpack and turned to her friends and sister.
"Please, be careful, Wanda," replied Merciful, looking at her with worry.
Wanda smiled. "I know the dangers of the multiverse, but don't worry, I'll be fine. My old and new friends are with me!" She looked over to Tracker, who looked very upset. "What's wrong, Tracker?"
Tracker made a big puff and looked at her. "It's nothing." She could see Wanda smiling at her like always, and she finally told her. "I want to go with you! I want to see the other universes! Maybe there's a universe where we're video game characters in a hero shooter or something! That would be so cool!"
Wanda smiled. "Maybe, maybe not. But you have a mission to do here. You and Merciful are needed here."
"But..." she whimpered but stopped as she could see Wanda giving her a very warm smile, and she sighed in defeat. "Fine..."
"We'll be alright," said Merciful, as she placed her hand on her shoulder and looked at her. "I trust the other members; we'll be fine without you for a bit. Go, Wanda, save the multiverse and the twins again. You're the only one who can, right now."
"Sister..." whispered Wanda, walking over to her and placing her hooves on her shoulders, looking at her.
"I know what you're going to say; you don't have to," replied Three, as she was also giving her a soft look as well. "Like what you said on the moon base all those years ago, when the escape pod started to launch, 'This isn't goodbye. Never will be'."
"That's right; it never will be. We'll always be connected and will see each other again. So don't worry."
Three didn't say anything; they just nodded and gave her a hug, making Wanda smile.
"Me too," replied Three as the two parted, but she gave Wanda something as she placed it in her hoof.
Wanda fixed her glasses and opened the folded paper, only to smile and cry a bit, as it was the photo of their mother, holding her. "Three?"
Three looked over to Amazement, who was looking on as she watched the group try their best to fit inside the small phonebooth.
"Remember what our mother told us? When we looked up at the earth from the moon base?" asked Three, looking back at her.
Wanda nodded, still looking at the photo.
"Amazement doesn't believe in second chances and will do anything to kill Rainbow Dawn. It's because of something that she did to her. She hasn't told you or your friends yet, but Dr. Wonder is dead. Rainbow Dawn killed her." Three could see the shock reaction on her sister's face. "Rainbow Dawn wants to eat the twins and restart the multiverse to have them in every universe. Because she knows them, she's looking for them...like she lost them? I feel there's more than we know right now. There's always a reason, right? Rainbow Dawn wants the twins back—'her'' twins; she wants her world back. Please, help Amazement. Make her listen to the Rainbow Dawn story. If she does, maybe there is hope—hope that there will be no more death or pain."
Wanda took a deep breath, as she knew that Three was right, and nodded. As she turned and started to walk over to the others, she spoke to her sister. "...but if we can't save Rainbow Dawn, then you know what must be done."
Three didn't say anything and just watched as her sister walked off and stood next to Amazement, who took notice of her.
"You know, my sister told me the truth. About Dr. Wonder." also not looking at her.
Amazement didn't say anything.
"I'm sorry. I understand what you are feeling. Losing someone you love is a painful experience, one I have no doubt that you went through and are still going through. You have a right to feel the way you do. But please, can you not hold that pain and that anger against Rainbow Dawn? Not until we know why she wants to restart the multiverse. It has to do with the twins, right? If she does have a reason, I can only imagine that it's a very personal one. She will do anything to see the twins again, no matter the cost, even if it means killing."
Amazement clutched her fist. "Are you defending her?"
Wanda took a deep breath and didn't look at her. "I'm not. I'm just stating the facts."
"But what about your mother? Discord and Three told me about what happened to your mother. How the other ponies and horses killed her and the rest of the staff. You must have wanted to kill them for killing your mother, no!? Didn't you have any anger or hate towards them?!"
Wanda closed her eyes. "Yes, I was angry. And I did want to kill them, but..."
"Then why are you telling me not to kill Rainbow Dawn when you wanted to kill them?! What makes her different!?"
"I didn't kill them. Yes, I did want to, but I didn't. Because I knew why they did it, my sister must have told you, no? Why we were being tested on? To save human children's lives from a brain disease." Wanda looked up at her, seeing her struggling with herself.
"Why!? Why are you all saying that, that I should listen to her?! Give her a second chance!? It doesn't make any sense! You should understand why I should kill her, so why are you guys telling me to do otherwise!? You know why I should hate her; wasn't Wonder your friend? You should be on my side; you should want revenge for her! So why are you siding with her?! WHY!?" she shouted, making the group take notice, but not knowing why she was yelling, Midnight and Discord knew however.
Amazement could feel the tears build up in her eyes as the memory of Wonder dying over and over again.
"WHY?!" she yelled again, but stopped as Wanda touched her leg, looking at her with such kind eyes.
"Because everyone deserves a second chance. Just like the twins, they saw themselves as monsters, thinking they didn't deserve to live after killing their own parents and then their universe." Wanda started to tear up. "If we killed them, then they wouldn't have grown up and had such a great life. They grew up to be wonderful people, helping others and meeting people who loved and cherished them. They found friends and family. Killing isn't the answer sometimes," she said, wiping away her tears. "And don't get me wrong, if Rainbow Dawn can't be saved, then we will put her down as a mercy killing. But please, at least give her a chance to talk. Maybe we can save her rather than kill her, so it doesn't have to come to that."
Wanda sighed too, walking to the booth with Tracker. Both got into the booth, but Wanda quickly realized that she was with her and gave her a look, which made her sigh with disappointment. She walked out, the door closed, and the booth started to vanish...until Tracker rewinded her own time and reappeared along side Wanda, who had hooved faced herself.
"WOOOOOO MULTIVERSE ADVENTURE!!!" screamed Tracker with so much excitement.
Merciful could only watch as the booth fully disappeared, taking Tracker along for the ride. She groan in disbelief but not really, in what Tracker did. "That girl! I swear, I'm gonna kill her when they come back."
Three walked to Merciful side and laughed. "Least sister won't be alone on this adventure. Plus, I bet Tracker and her time powers will be very useful to Wanda and the others."
"Yeah, you're right. I hope so."
They looked up at the blue sky and hope Wanda and the others can save the multiverse...
...but in another universe, up in the blue sky, there is a flying object over a city. It's a bird...It's a plane. It's...
End of Chapter Orange
Author's Note
yes, i just turn the OW logo to the side because it makes a E lol
Gathering The Names Across The Multiverse
Chapter Green(2): Supermare aka Flare
In Equestria and the many versions of it across the multiverse, there's always heroes and villains. Just like Twilight and her friends, they're heroes and villains in the multiverse. But in a few, they're just more than normal heroes; they're super heroes. Yes, super heroes—the very same ones that you see in comics and movies. But not just being the Power Ponies; they're versions of famous and very well-known super heroes, like in this universe...
Long ago, on a doom planet, a young baby was placed inside a rocket ship and escaped from her doom home world, all thanks to her loving parents. Now, you might be wondering, this awfully sounds like 'his' story, and you are correct, but in this universe, it's Flare's origin story. As the little rainbow-haired baby rocket ship landed in the middle of a field, the young baby was found by an older anthro mare and colt who were walking by and saw the rocket ship land. They saw the small child and instantly fell in love with her, taking her home.
The child grew up, learning about her powers and not being from this world. Her parents raised her to be a kind and caring soul, a young girl who won't even hurt a fly. But a huge turning point in her life came when her father died of a heart attack, and with all the powers she had, she couldn't do anything to save him. That day, she saw that life, no matter who it was, was worth saving. She knew she needed to use her powers to help others, even if it meant she was risking her life in the process. She soon became a superhero, wearing a special suit and wearing the blanket that she found with, donning her family crest
She became one of the greatest superheroes in the world, and her superhero name is...
"Flare!" shouted Berry as she pressed her face against the glass door of the phonebooth, making Discord remove his headset and close the script book, sighing very loudly.
They just arrived in Flare's universe and were floating above a city, seeing a rainbow streak flying by and fighting against a giant robot. Discord lowered the booth to a nearby roof of a building, opening the door as it hovered above it.
"Alright, everyone out!"
Berry flew out first, while Grape followed her close behind. Next jumping out were Amazement, Flash, Eirika with Twila holding on to her, Nova, and Lil Star. As Star hovered out of the booth, the door suddenly closed behind her, and the group on the roof could hear a loud engine noise coming from the booth. Soon enough, smoke appeared from it.
"H-Hey!? What's going on!?" shouted Amazement, rushing through the girls and to the edge of the roof railing, watching the booth weirdly floating around.
Discord pushed everyone as he opened the floor hatch, which released tons of smoke. "Well, this is quite the problem," he stated, coughing a bit and waving the smoke away from his face.
"What's wrong with it?" asked Wanda, joining him and fixing her glasses, scanning the weird engine.
Discord pulled Aaira to them and snapped the tool set into existence. Aaira took the tool belt and turned to them. "It's overheating; it's trying to reboot itself and start the cooling system, but it's stuck. If we don't-"
"If we don't shut it off, it will do a forced reboot. Sending us to another universe!" finished Wanda, as she knew what Aaira was getting at.
Discord could see that everyone was freaking out, and he wasn't sure how to calm them down. He turned to the group that was on the roof, and the only thing he could do was wave goodbye as the phonebooth jumped away, leaving the group behind.
"NOOOO!" cried Berry as she and Flash tried to reach for them but couldn't in time.
Amazement dropped to her knees, coming to the realization that they were now trapped in this universe.
"Oh no," whimpered Grape, looking at everyone who looked back at her.
"...what are we going to do now?" asked Flash, looking at the others, not sure what they were going to do but took noticed of something in the distance.
Berry landed next to Grape, waiting for her to come up with something, as she could see her thinking something as she flew back and forth. Eirika turned to Twila, who tugged her arm, asking what happened.
"Our ride just... bounced."
Twila let go of her arm and started to join Grape in the back and forth movement, trying to think up a solution.
"Where are Flash and Star?"
The other girls took notice and looked around, realizing the two were gone.
"Wait, where are they!?" shouted Grape, freaking out a bit and looking around.
Twila stopped thinking. "Did they run off somewhere?"
Suddenly, there was a loud smashing sound, and the girls turned their heads towards the source, finding that the giant robot was sent flying over them and other buildings until it landed inside the shore and sank into the ocean. The group was dumbfounded but then saw Flash landing and standing next to the railing, facing the group and dusting her hands.
"Well, that solves that problem."
The group were confused and turned their attention to Star, who quickly followed behind and bobbing up and down in the air in anger.
"What's going on here!?" demanded Nova, crossing her arms and giving the two a cold glare.
Flash smiled, pointing to the ocean, where the giant robot was still sinking. "Flare was losing and was smacked away from the city by that robot beam attack, so I stepped in and beat that tin can with a bit of help from Star." but she was quickly smacked in the head by Star herself, who had steam blasting out of her moon surface body.
"IDIOT!" she screamed. "I was trying to stop you! You were putting innocent lives in danger with your reckless fight with the robot! Least Flare was fighting; she was keeping them safe as she fought....I think?" She smacked Flash on the head once more but stopped as Amazement got between the two.
"What about Flare?"
Flash closed her eyes, used her power to sense magical power energy, and then opened her eyes, looking above them. "Oh, she's fine. She was sent flying away and is now heading back."
As she said that, they could see the streak of rainbow color flying back towards the city, but it stopped mid-air and looked around before heading towards them and stopping in front of them.
"So, this is Flare?" asked Amazement, looking at the superhero, but she turned to Flash, Berry, Star, and Eirika, seeing their confused looks. "...what's wrong?"
All four look at each other and back at the floating child that was in front of them.
Berry floated towards the child and flew around her, checking her out.
"But she does look like Flare, but just as a kid!" Berry stopped and shouted over to Grape. "Oh my god, did we travel back in time!? When Flare was younger!"
The young looking Flare gritted her teeth and opened her mouth, sucking in air.
Flash covered her ears, the first time she showed any pain to everyone here. "AH! IT'S NOT JUST HER LOOKS, BUT HER VOICE TOO!"
The young-looking Flare started to get more mad, moving her arms around like a child having a tantrum. "I AM NOT SUPERMARE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!!! I'M WAY COOLER THAN THAT STUPID OLD MARE!!!"
"Who's Supermare?" asked Amazement, leaning in and whispering to Eirika, who was still covering her ears and shaking her head, telling her that's Flare's superhero name. Amazement looks back at the child. "So, if you are not Supermare, that means you are not Flare, the person we have been here to get. So, who are you?"
The child landed, crossing her arms and giving off a smug look. "My name is Superfilly! The most awesome and cool superhero in the world!" she waved her hand in front of her face. "Way better than that old lame superhero, Supermare. She's old news!"
Amazement look over to the group, who didn't seem too happy to hear this child saying such things. "Okay, one, that's rude. Two, what are you? A pretender? Because I saw your type in my universe with other superheroes who had to deal with pretenders who wanted to take their names and claim their fame. But they all learned a lesson and learned that fame is not the reason to become a hero." but she could see Superfilly looking bored and not really listening. She groans, not really wanting to waste time with this kid. "Look, I'm not dealing with you. So, move along; we're busy saving the multiverse and all that. We need to find the real Flare!" She waved the child away, but Superfilly wasn't happy and started to get mad.
"Multiverse? Saving it?" She flew up to Amazement's face, giving her a cocky smile. "HA! Then you came to the right place! I'm the better pick for saving the multiverse than that old fart."
Amazement glared at her and was about to talk down to her, but Berry flew between them, facing the young child.
"Berry!" shouted Grape, seeing what just happened to her friend, making her fly towards in great speed but being blasted away as Nova rush past her, both swords in hand, and slashed the child with her swords, but the young girl dodged the attacks with ease.
Nova growled and slashed at her once more, but she easily blocked it with her glove-covered hands. Nova couldn't believe it; she was giving it her all, but this child was easily blocking her attacks and showed no signs of struggle in doing so. But Nova kept attacking, hoping to hit her, but was smacked away by a strong kick. Nova flew back and was caught by Twila magic, who quickly put her down, and Eirika rushed past them with her rainbow sword drawn.
"You hurt my friends! Flare won't do that! You going to pay, you faker!" she stated, giving a cold stare.
"And you think that's going to scare me?" Superfilly taunted her, laughing weirdly, which caught Twila's attention.
Eirika gave her a smile before charging in and swinging her blade, only for the child to dodge it, making her miss and leaving herself wide open.
"Gotcha." She quickly turned around, kicking Eirika across her face and knocking her away, her sword flying off and landing near Grape.
Grape looked at the blade and quickly picked it up with her magic, looking up to see Eirika being picked up by Flash and Amazement. Grape then turned over to a motionless Berry, who was being watched over by Star, and she started to remember what happened to Berry when she returned home. She changed after seeing death, and now Grape is experiencing it. Seeing her friend just lying there, motionless, She felt rage growing inside of her and gripped the Rainbow sword handle harder with her magical aura and turned to Superfilly.
"YOU'LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID TO HER! YOU MONSTER!"
Grape sped towards the child and swung the sword at her. Superfilly gave a weird, smug smile and just stood there, like she wasn't sure what to do next.
Grape swung her blade down, but the blade stopped in mid-air, inches from the young girl's head.
"W-Wha?" said Grape, feeling that something was holding the sword back, and she could see two fingers from a glove covered hand over the tip of the blade from behind her.
"That's enough."
Grape looked back, seeing an cyan anthro mare
"Berry!"
Flare watched as Grape let go of the sword and rushed towards her friend, begging her to get up, but poor Berry was still motionless. She then turned to Superfilly and could see her trying not to act all worried and guilty.
"Why? Why did you attack them? What were you thinking?"
Superfilly crossed her arms and stuck her nose up, looking away.
"They called me a pretender and said that I was not the hero they were looking for." She started to look sad without Flare or the others noticing. "So I showed that small version of us a lesson in not messing with me."
Flare shook her head. "Maybe Berry is right, Glare?" she could see. Superfilly, known as Glare, turned to her, looking somewhat hurt. "I know you are still learning to be a superhero like me, but you need to know what that symbol on your chest means. That means you can't go around hurting innocent people, including my friends. That's not what a hero should do."
Glare didn't say anything and just stared at the symbol on her chest and then the one on Flare's own chest, which was a yellow and red S.
Flare turned to the group, hovering over them, leaving Glare alone as she touched her chest. "I'm so sorry about what Glare has done to you girls! How is Berry?" she asked, seeing Grape crying over their friend, but thankfully, Berry opened her eyes and rubbed her chest.
"Feels like I was hit by a train, huh?" Berry was hugged by Grape, who was saying she was sorry and saying other things that she didn't understand. But she finally took notice of Flare, who kneeled down and smiled at her with so much hope.
"Hey, glad to see you're awake. Long time no see, Berry."
"FLARE!" cried Berry, seeing her old friend and pushing Grape off and jumping on her chest. "I miss you! HOW YOU BEEN!"
"We have a lot to talk about, right?" She then turned her attention to the group, which walked over. She handed back the rainbow sword to Eirika, who took it but also hugged her.
"Good to see you, Flare."
Flare patted Eirika's back, smiling as they let go.
"Eirika, look at you!" She then turned to Flash, who gave her a big, stupid grin. "Same with you, Flash. You two have grown so much! How long has it been in your universe? It's only been three years since saving the twins and the multiverse. I'm guessing it's been much longer in yours."
"Yeah, time moves faster or slower in other universes," answered Star, who floated around Flare. "But we're not here to just see you again."
Flare's happy smile became a very worried one. "What's going on, Star?"
"It's the twins," simply answered Amazement.
"The twins?" replied Flare, becoming so serious in her tone that Glare took notice of it, as she had never seen her like this before and listened to the conversation.
"...I see. Blitz and Braver are in danger from this mad woman who wants to restart the multiverse by eating them." Flare placed her hands on her hips, giving off an aura of hope. "I won't let that happen! I'm in!"
Everyone was happy that Flare wanted to help, but Glare looked on in anger, angry that the group didn't pick her.
"Why would they pick her over me? I'm the better hero here!" asked Glare to herself, pouting and turning away.
Flare clapped her hands and looked around, wondering where the booth was at, that Amazement explained in how they jump across the multiverse.
"Where is it?"
Amazement sighed, then explained what happened, making Flare chuckle a bit.
"I see then. That is a problem...hmmm..." she started to think, and a lightbulb appeared over her head. "I think I know how to get the phonebooth back into this universe, or at least call out to it. I just need to visit a friend!" She turned to Glare, who was just sitting on the floor, tapping her fingers in annoyance. "Hey, Glare."
Glare groaned and slowly turned to Flare.
"What?"
Flare gave her a smile, hoping that she would accept it.
"I'm going to leave you in charge of the city while I'm gone." She thought that Glare would be happy about it, but she seemed annoyed and turned away.
"Fine, whatever."
Flare frowned, knowing this wasn't the way she usually was. But she could tell something was wrong with her, but there was no time as she turned to the others. "I need to head back to my job real quick. I only came out here after my super-hearing picked up Berry's name being called out. I'm sure my boss is wondering where I went." She started to float up into the air, but Berry stopped her, asking her if they could follow her, as they wanted to see her universe and where she worked at. "Sure, here." She wrote down a street address and handed it to her. "Ask for Flare at the first desk! Just don't use my superhero name, okay? No one knows I'm Supermare. See you soon!" and with that, she took off into the air, heading back where she came from.
"We should go and catch up to her," said Eirika, turning to the group.
Flash nodded and looked over Berry's shoulder, reading the card that Flare gave them. She read it out loud to everyone.
"She works at a news network as a reporter," answered Star, getting a shock look from Flash.
"Oh, I thought she was some kind of newspaper reporter. That makes more sense that she reports news about nets."
Nova and Amazement just rolled their eyes, not understanding why Flash is such an idiot.
"Anyway, let's go!" said Eirika, who started to walk off with Berry, Flash, and Amazement, but Twila tugged her arm, making her look back at her. "Twila, what's wrong?"
Twila slowly turned to Glare, who was still here, as she just sat by herself.
"Something's wrong with her, and I think I know why. I want to talk to her an-" she couldn't finish as Eirika patted her head, making her blush a bit.
"That's okay; I trust your judgment, but I need you to be careful. We've seen what she can do. Okay?"
Twila nodded, and Eirika let her go, watching her step back and noticing Nova and Star joining her.
"I take it you girls are joining Twila." asked Eirika, looking a bit worried but not wanting to show it.
Star nodded. "Yeah, we just want to talk to her. We might know what's up with her as well."
Eirika turned once more towards Glare, thinking she might know why the girls wanted to stay and befriend Glare. She could also see Grape staying behind as well, but she could tell it was for a different reason than the others.
"Okay, just be careful. We'll meet up with Flare and come right back; see you guys soon." She walked off with the others, leaving the girls behind.
Nova crossed her arms, watching Eirika and the others head down the fire escape of the apartment they were on, then walking off the streets, blending in with the crowd.
"What's your plan, Twila?" asked Nova, seeing her looking over to Glare, who didn't take notice of them yet. "Like, I already know why we're going to talk to her because she's having problems and all that, but what's the plan? Like, you must have one."
Twila slowly nodded. "I do, but we can't rush this. She's clearly upset and angry. So, I want to start by talking to her first. Maybe see if she wants to talk to us, but if she doesn't..."
Star and Nova nodded.
"Then we can try again," replied Star, floating towards the young child, leaving the other three behind.
As Star floated away, Nova and Twila looked over to Grape, who was sitting on the floor and looking depressed. They walked over to her and kneeled down, trying to cheer her up.
"Hey, Grape," said Twila, trying her best to cheer her up.
"I thought Berry died..." sobbed Grape, rubbing her tears away, feeling very hurt.
Twila frowned, looking down.
"Grape..., Eirika explained to me that in your world, death isn't really a thing, correct? I'm not sure if I'm using the word right."
Grape nodded, sniffing her nose. "Y-Yeah. I've never seen anyone die or even be killed; it just didn't happen. We get knocked out, but never..." Flashes of seeing Berry motionless on the floor made her feel sick, which Nova could tell and rub her back, trying to calm her.
"Just breathe; that's what Layla always told me when I had...mini attacks." She could hear Grape following her orders, taking a deep breath. "There, now I know this is...culture shock, right, Twila?"
Twila nodded and patted Grape's tiny leg, which calming her down.
"You can say that. Look, Grape." She could sense her looking at her now. "Berry is okay. She's with Eirika and the others, safe and sound. She didn't die, okay? There's nothing to worry about, so don't worry. Just take deep breaths and breathe like Nova said."
Grape slowly nodded and did what she told her, breathing deeply and slowly, starting to feel better.
"Thank you... I was so scared, but you two made me feel better." She gave them a smile, but that quickly faded as Nova gave her a cold stare. "S-something wrong, Nova?"
Nova did a big huff from her dragon nose and stood up, crossing her arms. "You don't need to pretend that you are already okay. Let it out; show how you feel right now. No shame in that."
Twila and Grape looked at each other, a little worried, but Grape knew what Nova meant.
"It's true; I'm not okay, and I don't think I will be okay until I see Berry." She started to cry again. "I want to be like her! She brushes it off like nothing happened, that she almost got killed. She's already strong when I met her, but she became even stronger after returning home. I thought she changed for the worst, but she's still the Berry I remember—just much much stronger. I want to be strong like her!"
Twila and Nova didn't say anything, but they understood her feelings. They both wanted to be like the people they look up to and have been inspired by, even if the person has flaws.
"We understand," simply replied Twila, who held her hands, making her look at her. "But the best way is not to change who you are or become like Berry. Just be the person you are and become strong that way. Don't worry, we'll help you."
Grape wiped her tears away and nodded, hugging the two faces, surprising them, but they hugged her back. But that hug ended as Star flew by them, hitting the doorway of the roof exit. She was fine, as she told them so. She then tried to get out of the dent in the door. They quickly looked to Glare, who was smiling with smugness, but there was something else there.
"You are afraid, aren't you? You can't really connect with others because of your powers, and you think no one wants to be around you because of it. Even if it was an accident, like what happened to Berry, That's why you act this way—to push people away before they can be hurt."
For the first time ever, they could see Glare's face becoming filled with pure sadness.
"Is it really that obvious?"
Nova stood up and faced her.
"Not at all. I'm pretty bad when it comes to reading the atmosphere and understanding what people are thinking." She walked over to her and used her tail to wipe away a single tear from Glare eye. "But I understand when someone is suffering because of the power they were given. Like myself and Layla, we're the same. When I was younger and the disease started to form my powers, I destroyed my whole neighborhood block, killing some. Because of that, I didn't want to hurt Layla and ran away."
She could see Nova trying to be strong, just like she did a few moments ago, which made her feel better.
Twila joined Nova side, placing her hand on her own heart. "Speaking of not reading the atmosphere and understanding what people are thinking, Eirika was like that, and I thought she was weird when we first met," she said, seeing Glare chuckling. "But then I got to know her and realized she's not weird. She's just very...somewhat dumb." She chuckled herself, making Glare smile a bit more. "Even so, she befriended me and never once cared about the curse marks that were once on my body. She showed me that my dark magic, which was part of the curse markings, could help people. She's still showing me that even after the curse is gone, every day. So, what I'm trying to say is that you're not alone."
She could see Glare's eyes widen, shocked to hear someone telling her that.
"You're not alone in feeling like this. Thinking that the only way to protect others from yourself is to push them away. To keep yourself away from hurting anyone else, even if they can't really be harmed. It's okay to feel this way and to be sad."
Grape joined in, by slowly flying towards Glare with a sad but yet happy smile.
"You remind me of Berry, which helps that you look just like her!" She giggled a bit before touching Glare's hands. "She first became a magical girl when she accidentally hit a group of ponies with her magic during a fight. Thankfully, no pony was harmed. But when she did it, she felt scared and thought that her power was too dangerous. But after talking to us, her friends, we told her that accidents happen, and that doesn't mean you should fear your powers." Grape could see Glare closing her eyes, like she was trying to hide her emotions. "As long as you use your powers for good, you can't hurt others. You might make mistakes, and that's okay. The important part is that you learn from them."
Glare opened her eyes, which were filled with tears. She looked over to Star, who was finally getting herself out of the dent of the door, looking like she was embarrassed and mad at herself.
"Sorry, I spooked you as I bumped your shoulder. Like I understand, you don't see a floating talking moon every day." she could hear Glare laughing a bit. "I get the feeling you hurt others by mistake, right? I can see it on your face."
Glare looked down, ashamed of herself.
"Yeah, I have, more times than I can count. I always feel like this, scared that I might kill someone or hurt them beyond repair." She looked up at the sky, seeing an airplane passing by within the blue sky. "I was created...to replace Flare." She could hear the group asking what she meant by that. "Flare...died. She died a few months ago when she fought Calamity Day, a monster from space, and defeated it, but in doing so, she died in the process. The world lost a great hero, and a few others tried to take up her mantle, but they weren't her. Then... I was created."
She could see the group looking confused.
"What do you mean, Glare? Flare is alive, right? Were you just created or..." asked Grape, trying to understand.
"Flare never really died; just her body slowed her heart down to a near stop. She was alive, just somewhat in a coma as her body was healing itself. But the world didn't know that, and Nex, her archenemy, had DNA of her and created me." Glare could see the group starting to understand. "Skipping the boring stuff, I realized that Nex was a bad person, and I joined the others that tried to take up Flare Mantle, stopping Nex and the revived Calamity Day. Even Flare returned and helped us to stop them." She looked away from the group and towards the city. "Nex told me I'm a god, the most powerful being on this planet. I could crush anything and anyone in the palm of my hands. At first, I didn't believe her, but when I took up the Superfilly name and tried to help others by stopping the bad guys, I got people hurt. I felt my power and what my full potential is. It scared me." She closed her eyes, remembering the event. "I can truly crush anyone here to dust. It's terrifying."
The group could understand where Glare was coming from and felt bad for her. Star floated to her and bopped her chest, making her touch it.
"It's been eating you away, right? The fear of hurting others and not living up to Flare created a hole in your heart, am I correct?" asked Star, who could feel Glare nodding. "I've been there and am still there. I love Aaira; she's the one who trusted me and saw the good within me. I wasn't like my brother and sisters, a killer evil moon that uses dead bodies to create nightmares." She could see Glare was a little scared and worried. "Anyway, she saw that I wasn't like that, but a part of me feels like she's wrong. I... hurt her before she knew me... I'm scared that I can't ever be what she sees in me and that I'm going to end up killing her someday."
Twila rubbed Star's back surface, calming her down.
"Thanks, but Glare is feeling like that, that her power will only destroy rather than protect. She's going to end up becoming what Nex was trying to create. Right?"
Glare slowly nodded, agreeing.
"Yeah, I feel that every day."
"Then you and Star need to remember one thing," replied Nova, putting her arms around them. "You can live up to your potential with the people you look up to, no matter what! Sure, you have the power to do it, but it's your choice whether or not you want to become that person. To follow your own path and your own story. It's up to you and no one else!"
She could see Glare thinking about it, looking down.
"I don't know... Can I? Flare clearly sees that I can't... I still don't understand what she means by this symbol on my chest. Her symbol that she wears so proudly that I still don't understand what it represents"
"What do you think it means?" asked Twila, looking curious.
Glare touched it, gripped it hard, and answered.
"I don't know... I just don't know."
The group could tell this was going to be a lot harder than they thought.
Meanwhile, Eirika and the others were walking within the crowed streets, amazed that no one wasn't giving them looks. Well, just Eirika was feeling this, since she was the odd one out for not looking like a human pony.
"Maybe there are people who look weird in this universe then?" she thought to herself.
The group finally reached the street address and found themselves looking at a tall building with a planet on top of it. They entered it and walked up to the first desk, where a blonde, green-skinned mare sat. She was reading a magazine and not looking too interested in her job.
"Excuse me, we're looking for Flare." asked Eirika, who caught her attention, and she dropped her magazine. Eirika could tell she was looking at her and Amazement all weird. "Is something wrong?"
The mare looked her over once more and smirked. "I didn't know the medieval fair was back in season."
Eirika gave her a weird look, not knowing what she was talking about. Not realizing she's talking about her armor that she's wearing.
"Uh, we're here because Flare told us to meet her here, miss," answered Amazement, pushing Eirika to the side. "We're here-"
"Yeah, yeah, I know. She called me earlier and told me that rookie superheroes were coming for an interview or something. Here." She opened a cabinet from under the desk and handed them passes to enter the building. "Go through those doors and take an elevator to the 40th floor. Flare will be there. I think she's on the air right now."
Amazement grabbed the passes and gave them to the girls. "Thank you, miss."
The group walked away and headed towards the metal double door. They entered the building hallway, walking by many ponies and other creatures; some looked busy while others just loitered around. Eirika saw this and was very concerned.
"What's wrong, Eirika?" asked Berry, who noticed her worried expression.
"It's just that..." she looked over to a stallion and mare, who were holding onto their coffee cups, not paying attention to anything around them as they talked to each other. "This seems so...rude, like no one cares about their job as they just hang around, doing mostly nothing."
Amazement chuckled at this comment, which made Eirika feel a little upset.
"This is a normal thing here, Eirika. Everyone is just taking it easy, because this area is basically the break area for the staff. When we reach the floor that Flare is on, you'll see people working and doing their jobs.' explained Amazement as they reached the elevator and entered it.
It wasn't long before they finally reached the floor that Flare was on and exited the elevator to see people working on computers. They kept walking down the hall and saw the door with "ON AIR" and seats near it.
"Guessing she's on air right now, we better take a seat." said Amazement, leading the girls over to the seats and sitting down.
"So, how is this going to go, Amazement?" asked Berry as they heard the interviewer talking to a guest.
Amazement shrugged her shoulders.
"No clue. She said she knows someone who can help with connecting with Discord. Let's hope they can truly help, or we might have to wait for Discord to return, which can take weeks or months." The girls could see her slightly freaking out. "Or maybe years. Remember, in every universe, time runs differently than our own, which means, "
"Calm down, Amazement. We have a chance, right?" replied Berry, trying to calm her down. "If Flare says they can help, then they can help. Besides, Discord said he has someone helping him with the whole time problem, remember? If he didn't, we won't make it back in time to help the twins."
Amazement said nothing, only sighing loudly and placing her head in her hands. This made the others feel a little bad and a little unsure about it. They just have to hope that whoever Flare has in mind can help them in any way they can.
A hour later, the sign turned off, and a ton of staff came walking out, some looking at them with interest, mostly Eirika.
"Guessing the show is done?" said Amazement, watching the staff walk off.
As the last staff member left the area, a lone woman, wearing black glasses,
"Sorry about keeping you waiting, girls. I had an interview with the city mayor today on the news."
Amazement knew right away this was Flare alter ego. She was going to say something to her, but the rest of the girls stood up and all asked Flare the same question.
"Hello, do you know where Flare is?"
Amazement and Flare had the same confused look on their faces when they heard that.
Flare smiled a bit. "What? It's me, Flare."
Flash leaned in and looked at her with her eyes, trying to see if it was true.
"No way; the Flare we know looks nothing like you. Plus, she doesn't wear glasses."
Flare had the most dumbfounded look on her face, which the others didn't notice.
"Girls, this is the flare we are looking for," replied Amazement, catching the girls attention. "Her alter ego is a news reporter. This is her, Flare."
The girls return looking at Flare, who did a tiny wave back at them, but the others all agree that this wasn't Flare.
Eirika placed her arms behind her head. "Nah, this isn't Flare."
"I have to agree with the others. This isn't Flare. We should search for her," said Flash, looking around now.
Berry bowed at her. "Sorry, but we need to find Flare. Maybe you saw her?"
Amazement eye twitch when she saw the girls acting like this. She wondered if they were truly stupid or were pulling her leg.
"Guys, this is Flare."
They all looked back at her, not believing her.
"How can this be Flare?" asked Flash, which made Flare look around, making sure the close was clear.
Flare removed her glasses. "See? It's me! Sorry, but you girls have to keep this a secret."
All the girls gasped, seeing the real Flare in their eyes. They all asked her where she came from, not realizing that this was the same person, all at once. Amazement sighed loudly, wondering how she could deal with the group for much longer.
Flare shook her head and placed her glasses back on.
The girls were blinking, and Berry asked her a question.
"Sorry, have we met?"
"What are you talking about?" asked Flare, removing her glasses.
Flash gasps loudly. "Whoa! Flare, how did you do that!?"
"Do what?"
"Umm, you just disappeared, and this random lady appeared in front of us."
Flare scratched her head, trying to understand this whole event. "What? I just put these normal glasses on, see?" She put them on again.
Eirika grabbed the hilt of her sword. "How is she doing that!? How are they switching places!? Magic!?"
Berry flew around Flare, wondering where this woman came from, while Amazement sat back down in the chair, shaking her head in utter disbelief.
"Girls, this is Flare, both of them, remember? She's a reporter. Please, Lord, give me strength." Amazement mumbled to herself, still not believing how stupid they were being.
Flare couldn't help but laugh about this. She lowered her head and slowly took off her glasses. As she did that, Amazement swore she heard a heroic medley playing in the background. Flare slowly rose her head, once again revealing she's Flare, aka Supermare.
"HOLY COW! IT'S FLARE!" shouted the girls in unison.
Flare couldn't stop laughing, as she could hear Amazement's face hitting her palm again, but much, much harder now.
After getting to the roof of the Daily Equestria, changing into her Supermare outfit, and explaining who Glare was, Amazement was starting to see how Flare was having a hard time dealing with her younger clone. She told them about how she had been trying to explain what the symbol on their chest meant, but Glare still didn't understand it.
"It's kind of like teaching a baby to talk. She knows it but can't figure out the words." Flare was saying as they looked over the city, as the sun was setting. "But unlike a baby, she has the mind of a young adult. She's not dumb; she's just lost."
Flash nodded. "I understand that feeling. I have a hard time figuring out what Midnight is saying to me when she tells me things about the history of martial arts."
Flare smiled; part of it was because Flash understood her problem, but also because it was good to be able to be around her old friends again.
"Well, hopefully she'll understand soon. Now, let's get the others and head to a few states over. I'm sure my 'gloomy' friend is starting her rounds soon."
Flare took off, flying where the rest of the girls were, while the others followed by flying by her side. Amazement held Eirika, used a flying spell, and followed them.
Hours later, Glare floated alone above the city, watching it come to life as its lights turned on as night finally came. She had her mind on what the girls told her after they left with Flare, hoping it was true. She knew that she was more than just her power and that she could control it. Not hurting others anymore and letting them in. She touched her chest, feeling the 'S' symbol on her suit.
"This 'S' on my chest..." she thought to herself, gripping it softly. "What does it mean? What does it really mean?"
Suddenly, a green beam hit her from behind, making her crash into the street below. Creating a giant dust cloud and knocking cars and creatures back. She slowly rose up, shaking her head and coughing a little.
"Geez, who the hay fired that shot?" she thought, dusting herself off but suddenly feeling super weak, making her fall to her knees. Her vision started to become blurry, but she could see someone flying towards her and landing. They were wearing a green power armor suit and a 'N' symbol on the suit's chest. "...damn, you!" whispered Glare before passing out as a female voice could be heard laughing evilly.
"You are my property; never forget that, little one. My...creation."
In a dark alleyway, two mask robbers with stolen money from a convenience store ran as fast as they could. They knew the police were probably chasing them. One of the robbers stopped, leaning against a wall and breathing hard. The other one stopped too and looked around the corner, seeing no one. They thought they were in the clear.
"Okay, let's get the fuck outta here, man!" whispered the first robber, grabbing the money from the other guy and shoving it in his pocket. "Now that we have this, let's-"
He didn't get to finish his sentence as a black shadow grabbed him and took him into the shadows of the alleyway. His screams of horror echoed as he vanished. His partner realized what just happened and held his gun tight as he looked around him. He felt his body shivering in fear; his breathing was short and quick. He tried to calm himself down.
"Come on out, you fucking bitch!" He heard a noise from behind him and quickly turned to see a trash can falling over because of a rat. "Damn it, where are you? Damn Bat!"
He turned around, and a fist punched him in the face, making him crash to the ground. He rubbed his face and looked up to see a tall figure wearing a black and dark purple suit. The figure opened its arms, holding its cape, which made it look like bat wings.
"Fuck!" screamed the robber, pulling his gun out and shooting the figure, but a rainbow blur appeared and took the hits for it. The robber knew who it was and slowly set the gun on the ground and put their hands up. "Dealing with bats is one thing, but dealing with Supermare? No, thank you."
Supermare dusted her chest and watched as the dark figure walked past her and punched the robber in the face, knocking him out. The figure turned and looked at her, its white eyes narrowing.
"I had him, Supermare," said the figure, grunting as they tied the robber up with steel wire.
"You're welcome," replied Supermare, crossing her arms.
"I don't need your help. I had everything under control."
Supermare rolled her eyes, not believing a word the figure said. She knew her friend very well; she wouldn't ever admit it, never saying 'thank you' for helping her.
"Whatever, Nightmare, I need your help."
As Supermare said, the alleyway lights flicker on, revealing this universe: Twilight, known as Brice Sparkle, is a rich playgirl by day and a crime fighter at night known as
Nightmare didn't look at her but did ask her a question.
Flare closed her eyes and smirked. She wasn't surprised that Nightmare knew about her multiverse friends appearing in their universe. She was always one step ahead.
"Yeah, it's about that, and I think you know why, like I even have to ask."
Nightmare got up, looking at the knocked-out robber.
"I had a hunch it was them again. Not the same energy signals from last time, but somewhat close enough to those readings I picked up. But the fact that you are still here tells me something is up. And if you're not in another universe, then...there's a big reason you are here, and it's a bad one."
Flare couldn't help but sigh. Even though she didn't want to admit it, she was happy to see Nightmare being always right, despite the fact her friend wasn't smiling and had a very serious expression, like always.
"Yup, it's a big one."
Nightmare dialed a number on her wristband and finally turned to her friend.
"Another multiverse crisis, I take it? If so, let's head back to the batcave," she said as her batmobile drove down the alley and stopped between them. "The cops will pick these two up soon. Let's get moving." She jumped in, and the car rocketed off, leaving Supermare floating in the air.
She shook her head. "Always a serious person," she said. She looked up and could see the other robber hanging from a fire escape railing. She could hear the cops coming this way thanks to her super-sonic hearing and flew off.
As Flare was flying above the batmobile, she could hear Nightmare talking to her.
"I know you can hear me. If you are going to bring guests to my batcave, you should have asked first. Cindy Nickle is finally taking a long-needed break. I don't need her coming back home and seeing the place as a mess."
Flare was going to dive down and be next to the car, but she heard her friend telling her not to bother.
"We're almost there, and if you're wondering how I knew you went to the cave first, the alarm in the cave was triggered. It was only for a few seconds, but I have the security cameras record it, so don't lie to me."
Flare couldn't help but smile. Nightmare was truly smart and a bit of a worrywart. But she didn't care. She was happy that she could be with her friend again, even if she had to put up with her sometimes.
A few minutes later, they were inside a tunnel after entering a cave outside of the city. Nightmare told her that they would arrive soon and that they would talk in the cave. Flare had a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach, knowing Nightmare was mad and wasn't going to be happy. She hopes that Flash and the others won't break anything.
They finally exited out of the tunnel and into the batcave. The car came to a stop, and the roof opened up, allowing Nightmare to jump out of it and land with her cape covering her whole body. She slowly looked up and looked around, becoming slightly mad. Flare landed next to her and could tell she was upset and should be, as they could see the scene in front of them.
"FLASH! PUT THAT DOWN!" screamed Amazement as she and the others were watching Flash flip a giant penny into the air, like you would flip a normal-sized coin.
She had a bored expression, watching the large penny flip in the air and back into her hand, tossing it again with a flick of her thumb without any signs of struggle.
"But I'm bored! Come on, this is cool and fun! Never seen a penny this big before!"
Flare could hear Nightmare grunting in annoyance as she walked over to them, demanding she set the penny down.
Flash looked at her and smiled as she set the penny down back where she got it from and cracked her knuckles. Nightmare narrowed her eyes at her, knowing she wanted a fight.
"I fought powerful beings like yourself, so I suggest that you back down."
Flash appeared behind her and was going to punch her, but Nightmare rolled away and tossed a mini bat shape grenade into Flash's face, creating a bright flash. Flash grunted as she was somewhat blinded, her ears ringing. This gave Nightmare time to pull out a pair of metal futuristic gloves and put them on, charging at Flash and hitting her in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her, and crashing into the giant penny, flipping it on its back, and cracking the ground a little. Flash quickly recovered and could see Nightmare smirking as she ordered the batcomputer to shut the lights out.
Flash knew this would aid Nightmare, but it was too late; the batcave lights went out, leaving them in pitch darkness. Flash couldn't see anything—only the sounds of her friends calling her an idiot and the sounds of the cave itself. She closed her eyes and tried to sense her magical aura, but she couldn't sense her at all.
"What? She doesn't have any magical energy!?"
A pair of white eyes were behind her, and Nightmare was slowly walking behind her.
"You're right. I have no magical energy or superpowers. I use tech, not magic. You have no chance of defeating me."
Flash quickly turned around and hit nothing but air, opening her eyes and seeing nothing but darkness. For some reason, she felt something, like it was...
"Fear," simply said Nightmare, being behind Flash once more. "I'm a bat of nightmares, after all. I feed off fear. It's what makes me stronger. I was hoping for a better challenge ever since Flare told me about your battle with each other, three years ago. You're not even putting up a great fight."
Flash quickly turned around and swung her fist, but once again, Nightmare wasn't there. She started to sweat as her eyes moved around the cave, trying to locate her.
"You're fast and strong like Supermare, but I can tell you're very stupid." Nightmare punched her in the back and leapt away. "And go into battle without thinking. That is why I beat you so easily."
Flash grunted, closing her eyes and trying to focus. She knew Nightmare was messing with her, making her lose her focus.
"Come on, think. Think, Flash! Use that big head of yours!"
Flash eyes snapped open as Nightmare appeared in front of her, ready to deliver the finishing blow with a device in her hand.
"Too late, I win."
Suddenly, Nightmare felt a hand on her shoulder, and she turned around and saw Flare smiling at her.
"Okay, I think Flash gets it. Enough, and let's talk, shall we?"
Nightmare lowered her fist, and the lights turned on. Flare was surprised and a little upset, but the battle came to an end. She was going to protest this, but she suddenly felt her ear being pulled by Amazement, who was yelling at her for being stupid. As she kept listening, Flash could only see someone in Amazement Place, someone she and Midnight knew. Someone they loved like their own child...
Flash closed her eyes and simply said sorry to Amazement, making her let go of her ear. Flash then bowed to Nightmare. Asking for forgiveness and vowing to clean up the mess she created. Nightmare said nothing and finally removed her mask, revealing her face to them. Flash was the only one shocked to see that Nightmare was her universe Midnight, while the others who looked like Nightmare walked towards her.
Grape smiled and flowed around her. "So, you are a version of me in this universe? I like the outfit! Are you a magical girl too?"
Nightmare said nothing but noticed Twila and her bandana around her eyes.
"Are you blind?"
Twila nodded. "Yes, but I can still see the world through the mana of this world and others." She reached out and touched the white bat symbol on Nightmare's chest, feeling the material. "A bat, huh? A warrior uses darkness to her advantage and strikes from the shadows, correct? When you were fighting, I can tell you were trained in the way of the ninja."
"That's right. I was trained by a ninja, who is a master assassin and a martial arts champion, when I was younger. He taught me everything—all of the world's fighting techniques. So yes, I'm a ninja. I can use anything and make it into a weapon if I want to. I'm also a genius. The world's smartest woman." She watched as Twila removed her hand, but she grabbed it, spooking her and seeing Eirika holding the hilt of her sword. "I gotta ask you something. You said you could see me? How, I have no magical energy within me."
Twila understood the question and softly held her hand. "You are correct; you have no mana to speak of, but you do have something." She placed her other hand back on Nightmare's chest. "You have a bright and strong caring soul; there is no darkness that can ever cover it."
Nightmare's eyes widened and she was going to say something, but she just removed her hand and looked at her friend. She had so many questions she wanted to ask her.
"So, what's going on?"
Soon, Nightmare was filled in and went over to the computer, where she started to type and talk to them.
"I see, if you want a way to connect that..." she coughed a bit. "...phonebooth, then we need to head to Starlight Labs and use...huh?" She suddenly saw something in the corner of the screen; it was a warning screen. She pressed it and spoke to Flare. "Flare, its Glare, and her life signs are in the red zone. She is barely alive!"
Everyone was shocked to hear this. They asked how she knew this, but Flare sighed and looked pretty mad.
"You chipped her? It's not surprising coming from a paranoid control freak. And if I remember, you also chipped me and others back then."
Nightmare said nothing. Flare rolled her eyes. She was going to say something else, but Amazement cut her off, saying there was no use talking about it. Flare agreed and asked her friend if she knew where she was.
"According to this, her location is...here!"
The batcomputer pulled up a building with a 'N' symbol at the very top of it. Her and Flare knew who that building belonged to. Nightmare typed in some more and told them Glare was on the 99th floor. Flare was going to head out, but Nightmare stopped her, asking her not to leave the batcave, saying something was off.
"Why not!? She's in trouble! I need to save her!"
"And Nex wants you to do that. Nex would have found that tracking chip on Glare; she's not that stupid to leave it in her like that. She wants us to come. It's a trap."
"Even more reason to go and save her. You know Nex will kill her, if it means controlling her. Glare might be my clone, but she's a living being; I will not let her die."
Nightmare narrowed her eyes. She could see her friend wasn't going to listen to her.
"Then let's think of one!" shouted Amazement, making the two heroes look at her and the rest of the group. "This Nex person might be expecting you two and maybe other heroes from this universe, but she won't be expecting other universe heroes like myself and the others here."
Nightmare thought about it and realized that Amazement was right. Nex would be expecting her and Flare, but not them. She got up and looked at her and her group.
"Alright, I have a plan."
Far in the distance from the cave, a waterfall slowly started to glow as a white light appeared behind it, until a bat-shaped jet flew out from it, and following it were Flare, Flash, and the others with their magic. In the cockpit, Nightmare is flying the jet, while Amazement is in the back seat, somewhat happy that she's flying inside a fighter jet.
"So, you have a sidekick?" asked Amazement, knowing this second seat must be for the Nightmare sidekick.
"Her name is Raven, and she's on a school trip right now." She answered and said nothing else, making Amazement not sure what else to do as she tapped her knees, wondering how not to keep the silence between them.
"You lost someone, haven't you?" simply said Nightmare, making Amazement do a double take and not sure if she should say anything. "I can tell by your eyes. So much pain and anger."
Amazement looked away and hoped she wouldn't say anything else. She didn't want to deal with another person telling her to give Rainbow Dawn a chance, not after that monster killed Dr. Wonder.
"My parents were killed by a robber."
Amazement looked back at her, who kept talking.
"It was my fault; if I hadn't asked them to watch that movie, they would be alive today. Every day, I have to live with that guilt. It's why I became Nightmare—to strike fear into criminals and stop the crime in my city and others. I didn't want others to suffer like me."
Amazement clutched her pants. "I don't want your sympathy; I already know you are thinking of telling me to give Rainbow Dawn a chance." She saw Nightmare sightly looking back at her, knowing she was correct.
"Giving chances to murders is foolish, and it won't bring them back. All you can do is avenge the one you lost by bringing that monster down."
Amazement smiled. She was glad that she and Nightmare were on the same page.
"That is correct. I will not forgive her for what she did. That is why I won't die until she pays for her crimes." She softly let go of her pants and smiled at her. "So, did you kill the person who killed your parents?"
"No."
Amazement was taken aback by the answer, not after Nightmare just said about taking down the murder of your loved ones. She asked her why not.
"If I kill him, then I'll be no better than him. If you want revenge, then you have to stop the person without killing them. Make them pay for their actions by bringing them to justice. That is the path I walked. I won't fall down that dark road." She slightly turned toward her once more. "Someone once told me that all it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. I don't know about you, but I will not fall down the path of no return."
Amazement was shocked by Nightmare words.
"When I found the man who killed my parents, he was dying from cancer and wanted to meet me in the prison that he was in, wanting to say sorry and looking for forgiveness. He knew what he did was wrong, and that was enough for me. It might not sound like much to you, but that is how I live my life. How I keep moving forward." her head returned forward. "Sometimes, even murders can be forgiven. All they need is someone who will reach out their hand to them and give them a chance. To listen to them."
Amazement had no words as the plane started to slow down.
"We're here. Remember the plan."
The cockpit opened up, and Nightmare jumped out and landed on the roof of the building, watching her jet fly away. Soon, Flare joined her and nodded.
"She should be a few floors down from here. We better hurry...hmmm?" She stopped and noticed the section of the roof they were on started to lower itself.
"She's not wasting time, it seems," replied Flare, crossing her arms and waiting along with Nightmare as the platform continued down and the roof above them closed.
"Just be ready for anything, Supermare. I have a bad feeling about this."
Flare gave her a big stupid grin. The room they were in was pitch black, but the lights turned on, revealing that they were in a big office room with no one around. The only thing inside was a rich office desk, and the chair behind it swung around, revealing this universe: Lightning Dust, wearing a suit and completely bald.
"Welcome Supermare and Nightmare, the world's finest heroes. How may I help you?"
Flare eyes light up bright red, thanks to her laser vision. She is pissed off.
"Where is she!? Where is Glare, Nex!?"
Nex raised an eyebrow and said nothing. She simply pressed a button under her desk, making the wall on their left open up, revealing Glare being tied up to a machine and tubes connected to her, draining her blood at a slow pace. Flare quickly turned back to Nex, even more filled with rage. Nex laughed, got up from her chair, and walked to the large and wide window in front of her.
"Now now, Supermare. Don't get too angry. I need you to listen."
"Why? What did you do to her!?"
Nex said nothing and looked out the window, watching the city below. She had a bored expression on her face.
"I'm dying," she simply told them, making Flare shock, but Nightmare's cold expression didn't change.
Nightmare turned to Glare and back to Nex, realizing what's going on.
Nex smiled and said nothing. She pressed a button, and Glare started screaming in pain, making Flare run to her. She was about to rip the tube, but she felt someone grabbing her cape. She turned around, and her eyes went wide.
"Supermare!" shouted Nightmare as she tossed out her batarangs, and they hit the monster that grabbed her friend, creating a small explosion. It was Calamity Day, but it had robotic parts. She could only watch as her batarangs did nothing to the monster body, tossing Flare across the room and hitting the wall. "You revived that monster!? WHY!?"
"Because it will the world. Once I'm cured, I can make an army of those things and rule the world."
Nightmare leapt away from an incoming punch from the beast and tossed another batarang at it. "What are you talking about!? This will destroy everything! You can't be this stupid, Nex!"
Nex eyes narrow. "Stupid!? Why you...!"
Supermare blasted from the wall and punched the monster in the face, sending it flying out of the room and into the hallway. "You heard her; this isn't like you!"
Nex smirked and fixed her tie. "You are right, but I'm on my wits' end. I want to do something, leave something behind if I don't get cured soon. I will do anything for that to happen, even if I have to destroy the world to do it. I will become a god! I'll be better than you!"
Supermare and Nightmare watched as Nex took out a green rock, which filled the whole room with green light. This made Supermare weak and fall to the ground. Nightmare got her grapple gun out, ready to fire and get the rock, but she felt her cape being pulled and tossed into the hallway, thanks to robotic Calamity Day. Soon, the hole in the wall slammed shut with a force field, stopping her from helping Supermare.
"Damn it!" she yelled as she pounded the force field, dodging as Calamity Day tried to crush her with its fist.
Nex walked over to Supermare and kicked her over, making her lay on her back. She then sat on top of her and started to unbutton her jacket, tossing it away. Then she rolled up her sleeves and held Supermare's chin.
"You could of had everything! You are a god, living among mortals. You could rule the world and be worshiped. Yet you throw it all away for these lowly beings! I don't get it; why!? WHY!?"
Flare gave her a smirk. "I'm no god; I'm just like anyone else. I have my flaws and fears. Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses."
"BULLSHIT! You have everything, and I have nothing! Why do you have to be born with such power and not me!?" She raised her hand and smacked the rock across Supermare's face, making her bleed. "I CAN CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE BETTER IF I HAD YOUR POWERS! You don't deserve it!"
Supermare looked back at her. Giving her a stupid grin.
With another smack across Supermare's face, Nex stopped and laughed like a mad man, but stopped as she heard Glare begging her to stop. She got off and walked over to the tied-up hero and held her head up.
"Don't worry, I won't forget about you. You are special."
She leaned down and looked at the S' on Glare's chest.
"But not that special. You don't deserve this! You can never be her , you know that, right? You are just a failed clone that thought she could be free from my leash." She tore through the symbol, leaving a slash mark on it, making Glare cry.My slave!"
Flare watched this and tried to get up but couldn't. Nex heard this and returned her attention back to her.
"How rude of me; let's continue where we left off, shall we?"
She returned to Supermare, kicked her over once more, and started to pound the rock into Supermare's face, making it covered in blood. Glare couldn't watch this anymore and looked away, trying to think of what she could do.
Nex continues her assault and laughs at Supermare.
"Stop it, please," whispered Glare, hearing the beating that was going on.
"It's going to be okay," whispered a voice.
Glare opened her eyes and could see Berry and Grape using their magic to remove the tubes from her body and then the restraints on her limbs.
"You two!? How!?"
Berry covered her mouth and told her to be quiet while Grape answered her question.
Glare held them back and nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine. Thank you."
"Come on, we better get out of here," said Berry, helping to move Glare to the exit, but Glare stopped them, begging them to help Flare.
Grape and Berry smiled and called out to Flare.
"Flash! We got her! You can stop acting now!" said both magical girls in unison, confusing Nex and Glare.
Flare eyes shot open, and Nex could see Supermare body changing. She quickly got off and could see another-looking Supermare looking at her but cracking her knuckles as she got up.
"Another clone!? How!? Who made you!?"
Flash-scratch her chin. "Clone? I'm no clone, but I am another version of Supermare from another universe!" answered Flash as she started to walk towards Nex, who raised the rock to her.
"That's enough of you. You're going to tell me everything."
Flash smirked and stopped walking.
"No."
She disappeared, leaving behind a rainbow flash, and reappeared in front of her, kicking the rock out of her hands and grabbing her by the throat. The rock landed on the ground, and a blade smashed it into pieces, making the room filled with green light. Nex could see another version of her archenemy but wearing knight armor, a floating purple moon, and some woman with a blindfold over her eyes, as they appeared out of nowhere.
"Supermare! It's gone! You can enter now!" shouted Eirika above her, and soon, the ceiling came crashing down as Supermare came bursting in, looking at Glare and flying towards her and hugging her, happy she was alright.
Nex started yelling and demanding what was going on. Flare turned to her and explained everything.
"Nightmare figured you had kryptonite. So, she asked Twila here to use her magic to make Flash here, me, and pretend to be weak to the kryptonite, while Twila hid the others with a spell." She then turned to Nightmare, who was joined by Nova and Amazement in taking down half-robotic Calamity Day for good.
Nex's eyes widen as she hears this. She couldn't believe she didn't realize it, and now she is finished—or was she?
Everyone turned to Nex, who was laughing like crazy. She finally stopped and became calm.
Soon, the room started to fill with smoke, blinding everyone. Once it cleared, everyone looked at what was in the middle of the room, as another Calamity Day was in a green water-filled tube, but its chest had burn markings on it; it was the Supermare S symbol. Nightmare quickly realized what this was and shouted for everyone to get out.
"GET OUT NOW! SHE CLONED CALAMITY WITH SUPERMARE DNA!"
Everyone quickly returned their eyes back to the tube, and the monster inside opened its eyes
"Everyone, get ready!" ordered Eirika, holding her sword and shield at the ready while protecting Twila, who sensed the dark aura of the monster.
Flash quickly tossed Nex to the ground, flew towards the monster, and punched it, but her punch hardly did anything. Her attack just made the monster roar at her, grabbing her face and slamming her into the floor, sending her to the next floor of the building.
Nova roared at the monster and dashed towards it with her twin magical blades in hand, slashing its chest and jumping away, avoiding an incoming fist from the monster.
Nightmare got her batarangs ready and tossing them at the monster, making it roar, and started to smash everything in sight.
Berry and Grape blasted the beast with their magical wands, trying to get its attention off everyone and everthing else.
"I'm so done with this!" shouted Flare as her eyes lit up and she fired a red beam at the monster, burning the monster's skin, only for it to heal super quick. Everyone was caught off guard by that.
"HAHAHA! YOU CAN'T STOP IT! IT'S A UNKILLABLE BEAST!" shouted Nex, who was laughing her ass off, as she ran towards the window and hoveing there, is a high-tech-looking helicopter waiting for her.
Nova, Flare, and Nightmare tried their best to stop the monster, trying to avoid getting hit.
"Damn it, we can't get near it!" yelled Nova as she and Flare jumped away from a fist slam.
Flare blasted the monster with her heat vision once more. "We can't let it escape from this room! We can't let it go out into the city!" She stopped her attack, quickly flew towards it, used both her hands together, and pounded Calamity across the face, making it step back in pain. ":NOT AGAIN! NO MORE DEATHS!" Her eyes lit up with rage and she pounded Calamity once more before getting grabbed and being slammed into the hole that Flash went through and landed on her, only for them to be ground pounded by the monster and crash through each floor until they landed on the ground level.
Flare tried to get up, and she felt herself being lifted up and tossed against a wall. She slowly opened her eyes and could see Calamity Day staring down at her, preparing for a final blow with its spiked knuckles, but Flash stopped it and tossed the monster away. Both watched as the monster got up and its eyes started to glow, just like Flare's.
Flare quickly realized what was going to happen and fired off her heat vision, which collided with Calamity's own heat vision. Both tried their best to push the other back, until both beams just exploded, blasting them back.
Nova and the others watched from above while Nightmare rushed towards Nex, who jumped into the helicopter and escaped before she could grab her. She slammed her fists on the ground, angry at herself for not catching her in time.
"I'll get her!" shouted Glare, flying past Nightmare and giving chase.
Nightmare narrowed her eyes and turned to Amazement.
"Go after them! Here!" She pressed a device on her belt, and her jet flew by and hovered at the window. "We'll help Supermare with the monster; you need to stop Glare from doing something she will regret!"
Amazement nodded and quickly entered the jet, with Star joining her. They took off after them. Nightmare turned around and saw Berry and Grape flying down the hole. She and others joined in and followed.
Flare flew and crashed into the wall, while Flash was holding her own against Calamity as they kept punching each other in the face.
"HA! This reminds me of fighting you, Supermare!" joked Flash, remembering how they met. "This monster isn't as strong as you!"
Flare rubbed her head and stood up.
"Thanks for the compliment, but we have to put an end to this."
Before Flash could say anything, she was punched in the gut, and Calamity grabbed her and power-bombed her into the ground.
"Crap!" yelled Flare as she fired a heat vision at Calamity, only for it to be swat away, and it dashed towards her, grabbing her and slamming her into the ground, creating a large crater.
Berry and Grape enter the destroyed ground floor, using their magic to get the trapped people out of the wreckage and rubble. Berry could see Flare getting tossed like a rag doll and flew over to help, but was grabbed by the monster fist and tossed aside. Grape helped Berry back up, and they both started blasting Calamity Day, but its armor-like skin protected it.
Soon, the others landed and acted quickly. Eirika dashed towards it, slashing Calamity back, making it roar in pain. It tried to smash her, but a magical force field protected her, thanks to Twila. Calamity noticed this and swatted Eirika away and charged towards Twila, who fired off magical element spells like water, but nothing was stopping it.
"I got you!" shouted Nova, jumping over Twila and stabbing her swords into the ground, releasing a powerful wave of fire and ice towards the monster. The flames and ice burned the monster skin but didn't stop it as well. Nova roared at it, charging forward and unleashing her meltdown aura, making everything around her melt from the heat. She swung her twin swords, but the monster caught her attacks, lifted her up, and tossed her into the ground.
"Nova!" yelled Nightmare, dashing towards the monster and tossing her batarangs at it, which made no difference. She quickly took out a high-tech-looking gun and used her grapple hook to swing above the monster, landing on its back. The gun released a glue-like substance that covered the monster's back. Nightmare made a bat symbol and jumped away and pressed a switch on the gun, making the glue explode and making the monster roar.
Nova saw her chance and stood back up and stabbed the monster in the chest. Both stared at each other down and roared into each other's faces.
Nightmare landed and could see a rainbow blur passing her, who was Flare and slammed into Calamity. She tackled it across the lobby and into another room. She dragged it across the floor and started to beat its face in.
"NOT! AGAIN! I WON'T LET YOU KILL ANYONE HERE!" She screamed and pounded Calamity one last time, creating a big dent in its face.
Everyone watched this and knew that it was almost over. Flare stood back up, away from the body, and could see the monster doing the same as it too stood back up. Calamity-dented face healed, and it now stared at Flare and chuckled at her, like it was mocking her. Flare gritted her teeth and dashed towards it, only to be punched in the face and slammed into the ground with a spike knuckle in her shoulder.
Everyone was in shock and could hear laughter from the monster, and then...
"KILL! KILL SUPERMARE!" shouted Calamity, pushing its spiky knuckles deeper into Flare's shoulder, making her bleed, but she didn't yell or do anything.
Flare smirk. "You couldn't the first time, buddy! Why do you think you'll be able to do it this time?!" She taunted the monster.
"FLASH! GET HER OUT OF THERE!" shouted Eirika as she rushed towards the monster and slashed her sword at it, making it step back, removing its spiked knuckles from Flare's shoulder, and sweeping its arms at the knight, who blocked it with her rainbow shield.
Flash quickly flew in and helped Flare up, while the others joined them.
"It keeps healing itself, and it's stronger than before," said Nova, cracking her neck. She could see Calamity Day trying to approach them while Eirika was trying to keep it at bay.
Twila started to think of something. "If it keeps healing itself, then we need to overburden its healing abilities!"
Grape joined in. "Yes, if we burn out its healing abilities, then we can put an end to this. Great idea, Twila! I was thinking the same thing!"
Nightmare quickly understood what they were talking about. "Same here...hmmm, you two are me, aren't you?" She gave them a smile and then turned to everyone. "You heard them; you need to give everything you have! We must put an end to this monster, here and now."
"Yeah! It ends here and now." agreed Flare, her eyes glowing much brighter now.
Nova body started to go into meltdown mode, but she soon took that burning energy into her swords. She held them at the ready.
Eirika flew back and landed on her side as Calamity smacked her away like a bug. She got up, placed her shield on her back, held her blade hilt to her face, and started chanting a prayer, which summoned the spirit dragon of Helios, who stood behind her.
Flash combined her hands together and started to say her attack name. "RAINNNNNN!" Soon, rainbow energy started to gather in her palms.
Berry and Grape touched their magical wands together, and two bright stars appeared above them.
Calamity charged at the group, not caring what they were doing, just wanting to kill them.
As calamity was almost upon them, they released their attacks. Nova unleashed her overwhelming heat blast, Flare unleashed a powerful heat ray from her eyes, Flash unleashed her Rainboom beam attack, Helios combined with the rainbow sword, making Eirika shouting Rainbow Aether, blasting out a huge rainbow energy wave, and finally, Grape and Berry fired off two large magical stars. Their attack clashes with Calamity, overwhelming its healing factor. To the point, its body started to crumble apart as they blasted through the wall and the building itself. They finally stopped and could see their attack finish the monster.
"WE...WE DID IT!" shouted Berry and Grape, hugging each other and cheering.
Eirika, Nova, and Flash drop to the ground, tired but cheering along with the other girls. Nightmare was the only one not cheering, as she kept staring at the pile of dust where Calamity Day once was.
"Is it over?" asked a voice from behind her, seeing Twila worried.
"Yes, it's over."
They stood and watched as the dust blew away into the night.
During the fight with Calamity, Glare and the others were given chase at Nex as they raced across the city. Glare tanked missiles that Nex fired at her and was close to getting the chopper, but it did a sharp turn. Amazement and Star watched as Glare almost crashed into the building and continued the chase. The batjet was in autopilot, which was following the helicopter, as the two girls were watching the whole thing.
"Should we be doing something?" asked Star.
"I'm not touching anything here! I have no idea what these buttons do, and I don't want to blow us or something up by mistake." replied Amazement.
Star could understand her fear as she watched the chase in front of them.
"Foolish girl, do you really think you can be like her!? Ha! There's only one Superma-ugh!" Nex clutched her chest in great pain, letting go of the steering wheel, making the helicopter nose dive to the street below, with people running in fear.
Glare noticed something was wrong and sped up, quickly reaching out, grabbed the tail end of the helicopter, lifted it up, and safely placed it back down.
Nex gritted her teeth, as the pain was starting to get worse. She couldn't move at all, as her body started to twitch and
"AHHH!" screamed Nex.
Glare could hear the scream and quickly flew to the cockpit, torn off the cockpit glass, and looked at her 'creator', who was in great pain. As she looked on, the batjet landed behind her, and the first one out was Star and then Amazement. They hurried over and listened as Glare spoke to Nex.
"Do you know what speed you were going?"
Nex just wheezed at her, making Glare smirk, and asked another question.
"License and registration, please."
Nex wheezed once more.
"You good?" asked Glare, tearing the seatbelt off of Nex's chest.
Nex looked at her with great anger. "I'm dying, you foolish girl!"
Glare's face became worried and shocked. "Oh no! Nex Luthor is dying!" but she burst out laughing and helped her out of the cockpit, tossing her on the ground. "Is what I would say if you weren't a massive piece of shit."
People started to gather around and watch as Nex was having problems breathing. Glare slowly hovered towards her, listening to her as she was speaking.
"Do it; kill me! I know you want too!"
"Kill you?" said Glare, thinking about it but hearing Star yelling at her not to do it, but she was pushed away as Amazement ran up and shouted at her.
"Do it! End this monster's life! What good did she ever do!? She's a villain, right?" She then turned to the gathering crowd asking them if she was right, which many said she was. "She has killed people but gotten away with it, right?" Many in the crowd agreed and told stories of how she killed some of their friends or family members with her taking over the world shit. Amazement was smiling as she heard what the people were saying. "See? Kill her and be done with it!"
Soon the large crowds were shouting at Glare to do it, as they were telling her what kind of villain Nex is and has been.
"Don't!"
Everyone watched as Star came floating down and stood along with Amazement, speaking to Glare.
"Don't do it! Don't be like her; you are better than that! If you do kill her, then it's going to eat away at you and your soul!"
Amazement could see the pain and suffering that the crowed has gone through, thanks to Nex. "Look at them; they're in pain because of her!" She gestured to the crowd and continued. "You want to be like Supermare, right? Then be a hero and end this monster's life! There's never second chances, and I bet she already was given a lot!"
Nex gritted her teeth as Glare's eyes became brighter and she stood over her, as the crowd was shouting even louder for her to do it.
Glare raised her fists and was ready to smash Nex, but Nex spoke in a mocking tone.
"Ha, you'll never be like her. You are completely different than she is, so do it, little girl. Be a god and crush me in the palms of your hands."
Glare looked down at her and then up at the crowd, who was chanting 'do it'.
Amazement was smiling and then heard Star faintly screaming and begging her to stop, which was annoying her. "Shut up already! We'll finally rid this world of a horrible, evil villain! We're the heroes!" she shouted.
The crowd was getting louder and louder, making Glare's eyes lit up and about to do it, but she stopped. Instead, she closed her eyes and opened them, and the glow of her heat vision was gone. She slowly picked Nex up, making everyone and even Nex herself, confused.
Amazement recovered from the shock and screamed at her. "What are you doing!? Are you really going to let her live after what she did to others!? To you !?"
"I'm not Supermare, and I never will be. Killing her will solve so many problems, but I think I finally understand what this symbol on my chest means." She looked at the large crowd and could see a few faces giving her a happy smile. "As I looked around the crowd, hearing their voices, I saw a few who looked at me with worry and fear. That's when it hit me: this S gives people hope—hope that everything will be okay, there no lives lost. If I kill her, then I'm not helping anyone. This is not a world of vengeance, but one of hope. I won't tarnish that hope!" she said proudly, looking at the S symbol on her chest. She then flew off to the nearest hospital, leaving behind Amazement, who clutched her fist in rage.
"Given second chances, she will regret her decision!"
Hours later, everyone was back in the batcave and ready to head off to Starlight Labs, but suddenly, the phonebooth slowly reappeared. The doors opened, and everyone fell out of it. Discord walked out and looked up at another phonebooth, but it was blue and looked very different. It's doors open, and a man wearing a blue suit waves at him.
Discord gave him a confused look, and the man just chuckled and waved goodbye, and the blue phonebooth slowly disappeared and was gone.
Discord turned to the group, who were talking to the other group, and then a few hugged Flare, happy to see her again.
"I don't want to be party poor, but we're on a mission here," said Discord, getting their attention.
They all agreed and quickly reentered the phone booth, leaving only Flare, Nightmare, Glare, and Amazement as the last ones. Flare turned to Nightmare, who had her mask off.
"I'm off then! I don't know when I'll be back." She reached out her hand to her. "Tell the league what I'm doing; I bet Lasso Mare is going to miss me," she joked.
Nightmare looked at the hand and just put her mask back on and walked past her, telling her she's joining her.
Flare smiled as she watched her friend enter the booth and try to find a good spot to sit in. "That's a negative way of seeing things."
"I'm not a positive person," smirked Nightmare, finally finding a spot next to Midnight, who gave her a cold stare, but Nightmare returned that stare. It was a few seconds, but Midnight smiled.
"I like you."
Flare couldn't help but laugh, but she heard Glare coughing, wanting her attention. "Are you going to be fine on your own? I could stay an-"
"No, go save the multiverse. I can handle myself, and there are others who can help me if I need them. I shouldn't be afraid to be around them. Go, and I'll deal with things here." She started to fly away but was quickly caught by Flare from behind, who gave her the happiest hugs and kissed her on the cheek.
"I'm proud of you!" She finally let her go and pointed to the S on the tattered red cape. "I knew you'd understand what that meant!" Glare turned to her, holding her hands on her chest, feeling happy. "It's why I gave you my old cape, the one that Calamity tore from my suit and hanged from a steel beam that night. I wanted to show that no matter what, hope is always there."
"But why give it to me? I wasn't really a hero back then...even now."
Flare smiled and hugged her again. "You are and always will be! You saved her life; that's enough to prove that you are a hero."
Glare couldn't help but feel warm inside and was going to ask her a question, but she felt Flare letting go and heading towards the booth with Amazement.
"You know, she's going to regret not killing Nex. Giving killers and monsters second chances is the most stupid thing ever."
"Every life is worth living, no matter what, no matter what you think or feel. Every life is worth saving. We're all flawed, and sometimes we make the worst choices ever. But the fact that they made those choices means that they're still alive and can learn from their mistakes. Even Nex can change, and I believe that, always."
"Even if those mistakes cause the deaths of others?"
"Even then. Everyone has the freedom and right to write whatever story they want. I may not like the ending or the story, but it's not mine. So I have no right to write or take their pen. If I did, then that makes me just as bad as them." They entered the booth together. "If we take their opportunity and chance away, then they'll never change or grow. They'll always be that same person, not willing to change. That's just sad. It's why there's always..." She looked at her and smiled. "Hope. I saw it firsthand."
Glare stood there, watching the booth close, and disappeared into thin air, leaving her all alone in the batcave. She flew out of the cave and towards the night sky, exiting the planet's atmosphere. She floated in space and closed her eyes. She started to hear echos from Nex's voice.
"Never be like her!"
"Foolish girl."
"A failure."
"Nothing but a mistake."
She gritted her teeth, clenched her fist, and wanted to scream, but she soon heard Flare's caring voice as it echoed in her mind.
"You will travel far, Glare. You will make my strength your own."
"You will see my life through your eyes, as I do yours."
"In spite of your past and how you were born, I know you're a good mare. And all good mares deserve a second chance. You might make a few mistakes. But everyone deserves a second chance."
Glare slowly opened her eyes, seeing the sun shinning behind the planet as she heard her own voice now.
"This is not a world of vengeance but one of hope. I won't tarnish that hope!"
Her own words kept repeating over and over in her head, pushing away the echoing Nex voice and calming herself.
"Good luck...mother. I know you can save the multiverse."
She shut her eyes, and the empty void of space slowly started to be filled with sounds from the planet, from a car honking to a child laughing, birds singing, and people talking. Soon, she heard crying, explosions, gunfire, and finally, someone calling out for Supermare. She opened her eyes and flew back to the planet, off to save the day.
In another universe, the final battle against the Changelings and the Grey was reaching its climax.
The remining human race gathered both alien races inside of a large steel alien device, and they were now retreating as the sphere started to close, but one badly damaged battle cruiser, with "Loyalty" on it,
On the empty battle damage deck of the ship, out of her damaged black power armor suit, sat Brigitte, this universe Rainbow Dash.
Her left eye was shut tight, thanks to the blood leaking down her face. She was breathing hard, and her body was shaking. She was losing blood fast.
"Well, I guess all I have left is to see this through. The Changelings and Greys have taken everything from me. My home, my friends, and my family. I know that nothing I can do can bring those things back, but I'll be damned if I just sit on my hands and watch." She then coughed up blood, wiped her mouth, and started to talk once more. "I'll be damned if I let them get away and do this to another galaxy like our own." She tried to stand, but she couldn't feel her legs at all, almost like she was paralyzed. "No matter what happens, no matter how bad the pain is, I'm not going to stop. I will see this through to the end. No one, nothing will stand in my way." She bop the wall next to her, and a hidden hatch fell off. She dug inside and pulled out a can of beer. "Scotty Boldgers Ol' Number 8, the last beer made before the Changelings came. Let's hope it tastes as good as it's made out to be."
She took the cap off and chugged the beer, loving the taste. She kept chugging until her head was all the way back, with her neck showing.
She stopped, slowly brought the can down, and stared at the label.
"Damn, I was hoping for a good buzz."
Suddenly, the can started to float and was crushed flat. She became shocked and looked up to see a figure. The figure was wearing a futuristic sneaking suit as her cloaking device made her unvisible, revealing herself.
"Terra? Damn it, why are you here? You should had left with everyone else!"
Terra, this universe Twilight, slapped Brigitte and shouted at her.
"Darling, my death won't be pointless. My death will save trillions of lives—lives that can see the new dawn and rebuild this world. If you think you can stop me, then go ahead and try!"
"Fine," said Terra, pulling her ear and then picking her up. She was being smug about it and even had a small smirk on her face. "I thought you'd put up a fight."
Brigitte chuckled and softly punched her in the face.
"This isn't where your story ends, Brigitte. You deserve to live a peaceful life," she kissed on the lips and leaned back, smiling. "With me. Seeing the good you did for everyone! Don't be a martyr and come back with me!"
Brigitte looked at her and smiled.
"Your right, this isn't where I belong. I don't have a place here anymore."
Terra took a better hold of her and held her close. Her horn was glowing.
Outside, the loyalty flashed with a blinding light, blowing up and leaving behind a small supernova-like explosion.
The sphere finally closed, imprisoning both alien races and forever trapping them inside. Never to spread its pointless war to other galaxies, forever trapped with each other. In an endless cycle of war of their own making.
End of Chapter Green 2
Gathering The Names Across The Multiverse
Chapter Red(1): Terra The Ghost
In every universe, the MLP setting is mostly fantasy with magic, but in others, the setting is sci-fi with no magic but instead psychic powers. In this one universe is that one setting.
In this universe, humanity(which are anthros) spread out across the stars, settled in a sector, and created its government, the Inter-Galactic Coalition, until it was overthrown by a particular group and became an empire.
The Grey is an alien race with tall grey bodies and high-tech weapons. The Changelings, an insectoid race that can infect and absorb biomass, invaded the sector as they spread their wars across the galaxy, destroying and killing all life.
Before the invasion started, there was a war between the empire and rebels who wanted to overthrow it. On a planet called Skyros, a young soldier named Rainbow Brigitte leads the empire squadron, the Element Walkers, after her commander is killed. This is where she meets Terra, a ghost, a special forces soldier trained in sneaking and using psychic powers. They join forces and lead the Element Walkers off the first planet that was invaded by the alien races.
This is where the Elment Raiders are born, creating the most significant rebel army to take on the alien races over the next few years until the final battle on Skyros. This is where they learned that a part of the Grey tribe left their race years before the invasion and created a prison to seal their people and Changelings away. It was the planet itself, and underneath its surface was the prison.
Humanity knew this was their final chance to seal the aliens away, so they lured the aliens to the planet, and after a great battle that took place within, Element Raiders flagship, Loyalty, blasted towards the fleeing aliens, carrying Brigitte and Terra on the damaged ship. The two were on board when the vessel self-destructed, stopping and trapping the aliens forever.
"Wait, Terra is dead!?" asked Layla, fearing that their friend is dead.
Discord rubbed his eyes, getting tired of people interrupting his storytelling. He turned around and glared at the group, who was behind him.
"Just once, can I finish!?"
The phone booth slowly faded into reality and landed on the floor. The doors opened, and everyone spilled out, complaining about being stuffed in there.
"Where are we?" Enmity asked, looking around the room, which looked like a small, cramped apartment living room.
Heat used her flames to light up the room and saw it was in bad shape. It was pretty rundown for a small living room. There was an old couch with a blanket and pillow and a TV. There was a window with a half-open blind, letting the night city lights shine into the room. As one of them was going to check the window, the sound of a handgun being loaded was heard, getting their attention.
There, in the darkness of the hallway, sat a person with a pistol aimed at them.
"Picked the wrong apartment to steal, you damn gang thugs. I won't go down without a fight." said an old female voice.
Flare raised her hand up and floated in front of the unseeable woman, protecting everyone from her gun.
"Ma'am, we're not here to steal anything. We're a group of heroes here to save the multiverse. We're looking for a young lady called Terra. She's a ghost soldier. Have you seen her?"
"Yeah, I know a Terra." The person put her gun away and came into the light, revealing herself to be this universe's Rainbow Dash. She's in a futuristic wheelchair.
"Yes," said Discord. "It's been a long time, and you haven't aged a day. What's the secret?"
Brigitte just shrugged.
"Maybe I aged backward. Who knows."
She pressed a button on the wheelchair, moved past the group, and stopped in the living room. She clapped her hands, calling out to someone.
"Girls, come out; they're not here to hurt us."
"Girls?" thought Amazement.
Suddenly, two holograms appeared out of thin air. Both were Alicorn's
"Girls, let our guests get settled. I'm sure they're exhausted after their journey."
The twins flew to Brigittle's side like little girls hiding behind their mother.
"Who are these people, Mom?" the white Alicorn asked.
"They are here to save the multiverse."
"Really!? So you guys, what daddy always talks about when she tells us stories!?" asked the dark blue Alicorn, smiling as she pointed to Flare. "Supermare!" then she pointed to the others and said their name and backstory, but she then pointed to the others and didn't know their names. "Daddy said she met only thirteen heroes in her adventure! Who the heck are you guys!?"
Brigitte scooped her up before anyone could answer her and placed them on her lap.
"They can explain as we make dinner for them. Cooking while listening to their stories is better than watching cartoons, right?"
"Yay!" said the twins as they disappeared into the small kitchen, helping take out food for their mother to make.
Brigitte looked away and towards the group.
"Get comfortable. Make yourself at home."
She rolled her chair towards the kitchen, leaving the group standing around, unsure what to do.
"Should we be relaxing? We need to find Terra, and she knows her, right?" asked Amazement, hoping the others would agree with her. However, from the kitchen, Brigitte called out to them, telling them that Terra was working right now and would be home in an hour.
Amazement crossed her arms and pouted, not believing a word that came out of her mouth.
Discord snapped his fingers, puffing a floating chair above them, and sat in it and put on a sleep mask.
"You can trust her: this is Terra lover and wife, Brigitte. So take a chill pill and enjoy the peaceful moment." he raised his sleep mask and peeked at her. "Because you won't in the upcoming battle."
Soon, he snored away, making everyone else laugh, and everyone found a spot in the small apartment to sit down.
After an hour or so, Terra
After a lengthy discussion, Terra and her family were informed about what was happening and why the group needed her help.
"I see. That's what's going on. The twins are in danger and need us again," said Terra, sitting on the floor and putting her hand on her chin. "We should get going as soon as we can!"
Amazement agrees and is happy to see someone agreeing with her.
"Whoa, now darling, dinner is done, and I can't let you go without eating," said Brigitte, coming out of the kitchen and holding a plate of steaming food. "Eat first, spend time with the girls, and then gear up. Then, you can save the whole universe."
Brigitte gave her the food, kissed her, and returned to the kitchen. The group sat around the living room again, eating and talking to each other, asking questions about this and other universes and the deal with the two hologram alicorns.
"These are Celeste and Artemis, AI from the war before the alien invasion," explained Terra, pointing her fork to the two girls watching TV. "Artemis was designed to build a hyperdrive engine, while her sister was intended to oversee all systems on the ship that housed the engine. After we won the war against the aliens, the new empire seized them and almost fully deleted their memory cores. I stole them, and I have been raising them with Brigitte as if they were our daughters." she was done explaining their story when Artemis got up and flew towards her, sitting in her lap.
"Daddy saved us! The greatest ghost ever!"
Everyone looked at each other and then back at Terra, who was blushing red.
"Artemis sees me as the father, while Brigitte is the mother. It's cute but embarrassing."
Everyone laughed at the situation and returned to enjoying their meal, but only one person didn't touch her plate, and that was Amazement, who just looked at it.
"We should be leaving, damn it, not wasting time eating and relaxing. We're almost done getting everyone, and I want to face 'her' again as soon as possible!" she thought, looking at the green meat on her plate.
Midnight noticed the reaction she was making, making herself sigh with her head down.
After everyone ate, Terra took her daughters to the apartment park, and, surprising her, Enmity and others wanted to come with them. She agreed, and they left the apartment. Few others stayed in the living room, while others went to the kitchen to help Brigitte clean the plates. Amazement just walked to the small porch, leaned on the railing, and looked at the dark city below until Midnight joined her.
"I have heard from the others how you have been acting lately. About wondering if you should give Dawn a chance," she said, standing next to her and looking down.
Amazement looked at her and chuckled, not knowing what else to say or do.
"Well, yeah. You did order me to talk to them, but I still don't understand what this has to do with my training in facing Dawn again. I should be learning skills from you, not speaking to these idiots who believe in giving monsters and murderers second chances. I'm not like them, and I never will."
Midnight sighed and shook her head, turning to her and grabbing her shoulder.
"Keep talking to them, and you will see why I asked you to do that." She let her go and walked away but then stopped. "All of this is your training, and when you see it, I'll teach you something that will help you beat her." She left, leaving Amazement alone and more annoyed about her current situation.
"I don't get it. What is the point of doing this!? This is not the kind of training I was expecting!"
After a few minutes, Amazement left the porch, entered the living room, and noticed a few she wanted to speak with were in the kitchen. She entered the kitchen and sat on a stool near the island counter. She watched as the group did dishes, cleaned them, and had fun.
"Shock to see soldiers doing housework," asked Amazement, looking over the kitchen.
Tracker was in the kitchen with Brigitte, blinking across the place as she put stuff away. Light and Spitflame were wiping the counters down. Great Diamond was putting leftovers into containers and putting them in the fridge.
"Yeah, well, we like to help. What's wrong with cleaning and helping?" said Tracker, blinking in front of Amazement and pointing her finger at her nose.
Amazement pushed off the finger and slowly scanned the group, feeling she should ask them the same question.
"I gotta ask, have any of you gave an enemy a second chance? Even if they did terrible, terrible things and don't deserve it. Even if they can't change and just continue their murdering."
The five women stopped and turned towards Amazement, giving her a confused look, which she wasn't sure why.
Light tossed the wet rag over her shoulder and crossed her arms. "I'm a police officer and member of its SWAT team. My job is to arrest people and hope the justice system treats them fairly. So, in a way, I'm giving them a chance; not everyone I arrest is guilty."
Spitflame leaned back, took her sunglasses from her hair, and glared into them. "I'm a great knight sworn to protect those who can't defend themselves. Many think that there could only be death on the battlefield of war and nothing else, but they are wrong. We spare others from death, allowing them to return to their families." She placed the sunglasses back on her eyes. "On the battlefield, we're all killers. We all have blood on our hands."
Great Diamond placed the last container in the fridge and stared at Amazement. "If we don't spare others on the battlefield, we lose our humanity. It is the very thing that keeps us from becoming monsters. It is the very thing that separates us from real killers and evil people."
"But-"
Tracker noticed that Brigitte took out a jar of cookies and blinked towards her, grabbing a handful and stuffing her mouth before she turned to Amazement. "I fought tons of evil people, some just plain evil like Doom Fister or that crazy quack that Merciful once worked with." she rewind time and had another handful of cookies, the same one she ate. "But others aren't evil, just lost their way like Reap or Widow Spider; one was scarred from the war and forced to be a gas-like monster, while the other one was brainwashed. I wouldn't have known that if I never gave them a chance. I wouldn't have known their reasons for being evil. Nothing isn't as simple as you think; evil people aren't as bad as you think, and you should keep that in mind."
The group continued their task, and Amazement was stunned by what they told her. She was going to go, but Brigitte grabbed her hand.
"I have seen a lot of good lives wasted, kid. Some were innocent and just trying to survive in the worst of worlds, while others were trying to live their life in the best way possible, even if it meant being on the wrong side. They didn't deserve the lives they had lost. If you can't tell the difference between a lost soul and a heartless bastard, I must question if you're fighting for the right reasons. Do you fight for revenge or something more?"
Amazement said nothing but pulled away and ran out of the kitchen and towards the apartment's exit, making the others in the living room look and wonder what had happened.
"She needs some time alone," said Brigitte, pulling up to the doorway and looking out.
"Damn it; I thought for sure those guys would agree with me like they're soldiers! Soldiers just kill without any care when ordered! They shouldn't be giving monsters a chance! I won't give in! I just won't, damn it!" Amazement shouted to herself while traveling down the stairs and entering another hall, but soon heard children playing and walked towards the sounds, thinking it might make her feel better.
She entered an entrance and found herself in a crappy and run-down apartment park where kids were playing. The AI twins played with the children as they flew around them while Terra and those who joined her were watching.
Amazement sat next to AJ, who was talking to Nanna. She said nothing; she didn't want to ask them the questions and already knew their answers.
"You okay there, magic girl?" asked AJ, finally taking notice of her.
Amazement just waved her off.
"I'm fine."
AJ raised an eyebrow and asked her again what was wrong, only for Sunny and her sister to answer for her.
"She's pretty upset that everyone has been giving her the same answer to her question."
Lunar removed her dark shades and placed them in her pocket. "About giving others a chance or second chances." She could see Amazement glaring at her. "The others told us during Wanda's universe, and Midnight told us afterward. If you want to hear our answers, go ahead and ask."
She wanted to, but her anger and rage prevented her from saying anything. Instead, she got up and walked away until AJ told her answer.
"You know about my problems, how I killed my family thanks to the pillar and all that. You told me that I shouldn't die, that I should live because that's what they would have wanted, remember?"
Amazement looked down, nodding without turning to her.
"You gave me a second chance, even though I didn't ask for one. But it was the right thing to do. I'm not dead because I was given a second chance to live my life, and I'm using that chance to help others."
Amazement quickly faced them, upset from hearing that. "But you aren't a killer or a monster! That pillar thing controlled and twisted your family into those nightmares! How could you compare yourself to Dawn!?"
AJ just gave a sad smile. "Because I killed my family. Something like that can't ever be forgiven, but you-."
"That's enough, AJ. Thank you."
AJ looked away and nodded her head.
Amazement stomped away, but Crescent stopped her, allowing Nanna to speak her answer.
"You are correct; giving second chances to others is very foolish." She could see that Amazement would say something, but she stopped by raising her hand. "But it is also foolish to hold onto hate and revenge. I am living proof of that. I was betrayed by someone close to me, and the only thing I ever wanted was to kill them." Nanna summoned back Crescent, who snugged against her face like a dog. "But Layla came into my life, saving me from that fate of unending hate and revenge. I live best with those close to me, not focusing on the past. Layla gave me a second chance without her ever knowing." Crescent disappeared, and Nanna turned away and watched the children playing. "I have done evil things in my younger years, to the point I could easily be labeled as a monster, but I'm not that old person anymore. I want Layla and all those I took in to be free from the infection and live everyday lives again. In my eyes, they're all my children that I love."
Amazement said nothing and listened to Lunar, who sat on the park bench.
"I did evil things that I shouldn't ever be forgiven for, but Flash and my daughter took me in and never hated me. If anything, I'm glad they are both in my life. Without them, I would still be a cold-blooded queen bitch of the moon." she leaned forward, seeing a little girl doing fighting moves against her friends. "I hurt my sweet daughter, my son, and many more. I should have suffered for my crimes against them all, but as I said, my daughter never hated me, and even my son forgave me." tears started to fall. "They should, though; they should hate me with all their heart, but they didn't." she turned away and rubbed her eyes, not wanting to show any weakness. She put on her shades and looked at Amazment. "I'm glad and pleased they gave me a second chance and allowed me to see my daughter grow into a wonderful teacher. You should be proud and honored that she's teaching you. Maybe because you remind her of someone that she used to know."
Amazement was going to ask what she meant by that, but Sunny patted her back and watched on, watching the kids play.
"I know the answers you are getting aren't the ones you wanted to hear, and maybe you're right, and you should just kill your enemy, but what will you do afterward?"
"I don't understand."
Sunny leaned forward. "Will you live your life without looking back, or will you be consumed by rage and anger, unable to move forward and trapped in one place? Because when you get your revenge, that's all you'll have. Nothing else. You will be trapped because you couldn't move on and live a hollow life."
Amazment said nothing, but she wouldn't give in to their words. "Bullshit, killing her will give me peace! It will allow me to move on! She won't be a threat to anyone ever again! I'm doing the right thing, damn it!"
She stomped away, but someone stopped her once more. Enmity flew through her and raised her hand, asking her to stop.
"What, do you have something to add? Because I'm done hearing the bullshit from you people."
Enmity stared at her momentarily, but eventually, she spoke.
"My father is evil. He wants to rule the world and make it in his image. You first saw this when you entered the base to get me."
"Yeah, so? What does this gotta do with anything?"
Enmity placed her hands on her chest, glitching from red to white. "I love him; he's my father. I would do anything for him, and I will follow him anywhere. But I will not let him continue this insane crusade. I won't kill him, though, because I can't, but I will do everything I can to stop him. I know I can change him; if I can't, I will spend the rest of my life stopping him and saving people." She looked down, shaking her head. "I have to try. It's the right thing to do. It's like what Bolt does for others, giving second chances is the right thing to do, it allows them to change."
"Change, huh? If I were you, I wouldn't count on that, Enmity. Once a monster, always a monster. There is no changing that. You can't save your father, and Bolt should have killed him years ago! Stupid girl!"
Enmity said nothing as she watched her raise her hand and was going to smack her. Even though Enmity was just a hologram, she still flinched as the hand got closer to her face.
"ENOUGH!"
Amazment felt her body being slammed into the ground with great force, making everyone in the area look.
"What the hell? These psychic powers! It's unreal!" grunted Amazement, feeling the pressure all over her body. She suddenly saw brown shoes and looked up, seeing Terra with her horn glowing. She lowered to her and spoke.
"I was listening to everything, and here's my answer. So listen well and hope it sticks in your fat head." she pokes Amazement's head. "I killed my sister and her family after my psychic went crazy. I lost my world and felt lost that I didn't resist when the empire kidnapped me and made me into a weapon for war. I killed so many lives, all in the name of empire, even if the targets I killed were just good people. All those lives were wasted by my rifle. I'm not a monster; I know that now, thanks to my wife." She leaned forward, her horn glowing. "I will always regret my actions, but I have changed, given a chance to undo my sins and help others. If you can't accept this, you'll prove everyone right about you."
"What? Prove them, right? What do you mean?"
Terra stood up and sighed, shaking her head.
"If you don't get what we're saying, you are beyond hope. You are a little girl whose life is wasting away, unable to move on and grow." Terra released her and called out to her daughters, telling them they were heading home. She turned to Amazement one more time. "My love gave me a chance to see everything to the end, seeing our dreams come true." She pointed to the kids who were watching and whispering. "In a world where those kids can live without fear of war, enjoy the small things, and grow and see a bright future. They don't have to fight to survive. I'm grateful for that second chance I was given, even if history won't remember us, like look how we're living, we're war heroes, but we're forgotten, living like poor people, but you know what? It doesn't matter because we did our parts and did our best."
The kids ran to her and hugged her. She petted their heads, and they walked towards the park exit with the others, but she gave one last speech to Amazement through her mind.
"Don't waste your life holding onto a past you can't change. Look to the future, move forward, and let it go. Because it's better that way."
Amazement was left alone and didn't know what to think or do. Her mind was blank.
"How's the visor, darling? It's outdated tech these days, you know," asked Brigitte, watching her wife put on the visor and turn it on. The screen turned on, and holographic info appeared.
"It's working, don't you worry." She smiled, putting it on her hair, taking out her old rifle, checking it out, and putting in a new ammo clip. "And the rifle is still good as new, even though it's been 25 years." She sat up and put on a belt filled with extra ammo and other things she might need.
"It's a Shame you don't have your ghost suit. Without it, you won't be able to cloak, and without those light armor plates, you risk getting hurt," said Brigitte, watching her put a knife into the belt pocket.
Terra finished gearing up and smiled at her.
Brigitte just chuckled. "That's my girl, always the crazy one." She hugged her. "Be safe, alright?"
"Of course, but I gotta ask you something."
"What?"
Terra turned her head, seeing Celesta hovering behind her. "Do I need to bring Celesta with me?"
"Of course, when she's linked to your visor, she will aid you in combat. Celesta was made for that, you know. Plus, it will give me peace of mind that someone we know will look out for you." Brigitte quickly turned to the group as they were entering the phone booth. "No offense."
"None taken," answered Discord when he finally awoke from his nap and waited for Terra to enter.
Terra turned to Celesta, who hugged her sister goodbye. She turned off her image model and revealed her actual form, a floating orb device. She flew to her mother's belt, hooked on it, and linked herself with the visor, making Terra hear her voice as she talked.
"All systems online, ready to serve and protect."
"Thank you, Celesta," said Terra, smiling.
"You're welcome, mother."
Terra waved goodbye to her wife and daughter, walked towards the group, and entered the phone booth. The doors closed and slowly started to fade away until it was gone.
Brigitte smiled and told Artemis to get ready for bed, but she quickly told her to get behind her. She pulled out her handgun and pointed to the doorway of their apartment, where a tall figure stood.
"Who are you? You look like Terra but much younger."
The figure walked closer and gave a sad smile.
End of Chapter Red
Author's Note
The ending of this chapter will be explained in "Their Names" but think of it as a preview of that story plot
Gathering The Names Across The Multiverse
Chapter Red(2): Rain The Sniper
In the infinite multiverse, there are many worlds, each with its own unique differences and features. Some are more advanced than others, and some are primitive.
In a particular world, a young girl's
On the surface, they meet Rain,
Years after beating the Queen, the technology quickly advanced for the human race that they could mass produce mecha, just like the one that Tara used, but unaware that Tara's mecha was sending an S.O.S signal into outer space, starting an alien war with the Anti-Drillers, who are the collective consciousness of the Anti-Drillers. The Anti-Drillers believed that the Magical Spiral Nemesis was an apocalyptic event involving spiral energy overuse and would destroy the whole universe.
They fought the Anti Drillers in the most epic galaxy-sized mecha battle ever, and it ended with the defeat of the Anti Drillers...
"And!?" shouted Terra, grabbing Discord's fur chest and shaking him non-stop. "What happened after that!? Why did you stop at the end?"
Discord pushed her off him and dusted his fur. "Because that's the last episode. The show ended after that episode." Discord put on orange shades and started to sing. "ROW ROW! FIG-WHOA!" he couldn't finish as the door opened, and everyone spilled out like always.
"My knees, where are we?" asked Amazement, but she quickly went silent as she and everyone could see a super futuristic city in the distance, with spaceships and mechas flying into outer space.
"Welcome to the end of a story," Discord answered, sitting at the phone booth. He pointed to the old, small building near them. "Everyone new, stay here. The rest of you, go get Rain." He looked over to Amazement. "You can go, too. Speak with them."
This was unlike Discord, where Amazement and everyone else were confused by this order, but they followed it. Amazement was with the original group that met Rain and got closer to the small building.
"I do not like this," Terra replied to her friends, feeling something was off, as she held the grip of her rifle handle.
"Yeah, something feels wrong," answered Berry, flying close to Flare, who nodded.
As they got closer, they noticed a female figure sitting outside the building's entrance, like she was waiting for someone. Before they got closer, they could see her looking at the night sky, watching the giant spaceship and mechas fly off to wherever they were going.
Wanda, Terra, Aaira, and Heat stopped, realizing who was before them. It was a universe version of themselves, but much older-looking.
"You are Tara, aren't you?" whispered Heat, bringing the woman named Tara to the group's attention.
"It is, and just by looking at you and others, you must be the group that Rain met in that multiverse adventure. That was—" she couldn't finish as she coughed and opened the door for them. "I'm guessing you are here for her, right? Another multiverse problem." She started to cough more but quickly covered her mouth and pointed inside. "She will be happy to see you."
Amazement could see everyone's worried faces as they kept looking at Tara before finally walking inside. She was gonna enter, too, but Tara stopped her with a drill staff.
"Hey, what's the big idea?"
Tara didn't answer and signaled her to look at what would happen, which she did. Amazement watched on as Terra and the others looked around the classroom. The small building was just a classroom, and at the end of it was an elderly teacher who was putting things away.
Everyone stopped far from the teacher, only Terra was the one who stepped forward and had the most sadden look on her face as she called to the teacher.
"Yo, Rain. Long time no see."
The teacher, known as Rain, flinched when she heard that voice and slowly turned around, revealing her face.
Rain dropped the box in her hands, ran to the group, and hugged them tightly. Amazement quickly realizes what is wrong with the group, as it makes sense now.
After the group hug, Rain stepped back and pointed to Terra's grey hair.
"You look good in grey, you know that," she wondered. "I thought we were around the same age, right? Shouldn't you have white hair by now? It's been 40 years since that day, in fact." She turned to the others. "Why are some of you still young or aged not too much?"
Wanda sat in a student chair, fixing her glasses, and quickly explained the time difference between the universes, what was happening, and why they were here. Rain took it all in and sat down at her desk.
"I see." She turned to the entrance and looked at Tara, who waved at her. "I think I'll be no help in this battle, like, look at me. I'm not that young girl who helped save the universe anymore. I'm an old teacher, teaching kids the basics and the history of everything. Maybe you should ask Tara over there. She can still fight, unlike me."
Tara sighed and stood up.
"They're here for you, not me. Those twins need your help, Rain. If anyone can help, it's you. Besides, I bet those kids will be happy to see you again. I know they will."
"But-but-" Rain was gonna argue, but she knew there was no winning with Tara. Instead, she looked at her friends, giving them a sad look. "I'm sorry, but I can't help. Sorry, you had to come all the way out here for nothing."
Amazement was shocked at this. How could Rain refuse, and just like that?
"Rain, you don't have to be afraid," replied Terra, stepping forward and placing her hand on Rain's shoulder. "Come on, we need you! The twins need you! The fucking multiverse needs you!"
"Terra, look at me. I'm an old lady. What can I do? I'm useless. I can't shoot a sniper rifle anymore; hell, my fingers are too stiff, and I can barely move them." she answered, showing her fingers and slowly moving them. "I can't go with you."
Terra let her go. "Rain."
Berry flew towards Rain, landing on the desk and touching Rain's old fingers.
Layla walked over now and looked at the pictures on the wall, it was Rain and childrens who once studied here. She could see how happy they were.
"We can't force you, and I don't want to, either. We respect your decision, but I have a question," Layla said, not turning away from the pictures. "You saved this universe, didn't you? Along with Tara and the rest of your friends, correct?" She could see Rain nodding. "Then you brought all these children a wonderful dawn. So, if the dawn you created is in danger, you must protect it, right?"
Rain didn't answer, making Wanda join Layla's side in looking over the photos.
"You created a better tomorrow for the next generation. We can see that," Wanda explained, pointing to the photo of the first generation and the next one after it. "But there won't be a tomorrow if you give up like this. Even if you have doubts about yourself, we are here with you. If you can't trust yourself, then trust us."
"I can't do that," Rain said, standing up and taking down an ancient picture. "You can't understand. I'll be just a burden for all of you."
Tara knew what picture Rain had taken down and grabbed Amazament's shoulder, getting her attention. She looked over, seeing her signaling her to follow her somewhere. Amazement nodded and followed, leaving Rain and the others alone as they tried their best to get her to accompany them.
"Where are we going?" asked Amazement, walking away from the school and towards the barren part of the area they were in.
Tara kept walking and looked up at the stars in the sky.
"Getting something to help Rain and get her confidence back."
"Huh? Like what?"
But Tara didn't reply; instead, she said something else to her.
"So, you carry hate for someone, correct?"
Amazement flinched when she said that. "What do you mean? I don't hate anyone. I have no enemies or anything." she lied through her teeth.
"Your heart says otherwise, and it's eating you up." she slightly turned to her, giving her a stare. "I have seen those eyes before. You lost someone important to you, and that's what caused the hate to start. To drill towards your heart, making it grow. That hate will never die until you get the closure you seek."
Amazement was silent and looked at the ground as they kept walking. She hated this, everyone trying to be all-wise, thinking they knew what was right for her.
"You are right; the hate and pain won't ever end until I kill the person who murdered my honey bun." she held the handle of her sword, gripping it tight. "That's the only way I can get closure!" she looked up at her, her eyes filled with determination and anger.
"Then go, kill your enemy. But if you do, what will be left of the real you? Will you become someone you aren't?" she asked, making her stop in her tracks. "You'll be drilling the same spot, never moving on and drilling deeper. Your soul will become a hole—a hole that can't ever be filled with anything. The more you dig, the emptier it will become."
Amazement didn't answer, and the two stayed quiet. Finally, after some time, Tara pointed to something in the distance. It was an old shed that looked like it had seen better days. They walked up to it, and Tara opened the door. Inside was nothing, nothing at all, just the dirt ground.
"So we came out here to an empty shed?"
"No, we didn't. Watch."
Tara held her staff out, and with a glow of spiral-looking energy, it became a large-sized drill. With the drill in hand, Tara started to dig for something. Amazement didn't know what to do, so she just sat down and watched her dig.
"Whoever you lost, they're gone," said Tara, still digging.
Amazement quickly stood in anger. "I KNOW THEY'RE GONE! STOP TALKING LIKE THAT!"
Tara stopped digging and stood up to her, tossing the drill towards her, who caught it but had difficulty holding it. "Dig."
"What?" asked Amazement, but Tara pointed to the hole. "But why?"
Tara said nothing, only pointing to the hole. Amazement wanted to refuse, but something in her made her do it. She took the drill and started to drill.
"This is stupid."
"Then stop, walk away," said Tara, who sat down and watched her.
Amazement wanted to drop the drill and leave, but she didn't. She kept digging like she was asked to. It was a while before Tara spoke once more.
"They're dead. They're gone." Tara could see Amazement flinching again, but she kept going. "But they're right there on your back." she placed her hand on her back, stopping her from shaking. "And here in your heart. They live on as a part of you! If you're gonna dig, dig to the heavens. Dig until you reach the stars! Then maybe you'll find them! Or maybe they'll find you! Dig and don't stop. Never stop, no matter what. You'll never know until you do." she could still hear digging sounds but was met with soft crying. "Don't let the rage, hate, and vengeance stop your drill, and never dig in the wrong direction."
She patted her back and got up, leaving the shed. Amazement kept drilling until the digging started to get slower, and the tears kept falling.
It wasn't long before Amazement hit something and called out to Tara, who returned and noticed a half-buried item. Tara and Amazement pulled out a long briefcase with a handle strap on it. Tara placed it on her shoulder and returned her drill, making it a staff again. They started to walk back to the school, but Amazement had to ask Tara something. It was the same question she had asked others, and Tara gave her an answer.
"Second chances, huh? Everyone gets a second chance, even the most evil of people. I'm not saying everyone deserves one, but some do. Even though you might have given up, the others didn't. That's why they're trying their best to help you, even though they know they can't."
"Yeah, but still. If everyone gets a second chance, why her!? She took away the love of my life! She's even going to kill the whole multiverse! That's trillions of lives! Why should she get a second chance when she's a monster? I won't give her one!"
Tara stopped, looked at her, and pointed to the stars above them.
"All lights in the sky are stars."
"What?"
"All lights in the sky are stars," repeated Tara, and Amazement just stared at her, not understanding. "If you were a star, how would you feel if people only saw the darkness surrounding you? They don't even try to look past that and see the actual spark that shines inside. They never see the true beauty of that spark, never appreciate that star. Will you be like that? Or will you try to see past that darkness and try to see the spark?"
"Tara, I don't get any of this. Please, tell me."
"It's not up to me; it's up to you. You have to decide, and only then will you understand what I'm trying to say." She pointed to the heavens, giving off a ray of purple light and pink sparks. "Believe in me that believes in you!" She lowered her arm and returned to walking, leaving Amazement to look to the stars before catching up with her.
They returned to find Rain yelling at her friends as she exited the building.
"Enough, just get out already! You guys don't need me! Not when you have so many better, stronger people with you!" she pointed to the waiting group near the phone booth. "I'm just a useless old lady who isn't in her prime anymore!" she kept going, but Tara called out to her.
"Rain, grit those teeth!"
Rain quickly turned and was met with a fist to the cheek, knocking her down to the ground. Everyone was shocked at what had just happened.
"Here," said Tara, tossing the long briefcase into Rain's lap, shocking her at what she held.
"I thought I tossed this away years ago," she said, looking up at Tara, confused. "How?"
Tara kneeled and smiled.
"I wasn't going to let you throw that away. It's part of you, no matter how old you get. You need to learn, old friend. Never give up. Never stop drilling for the future. If you think your prime is done, keep drilling, even when you feel you've reached the end."
Rain looked down at the case, slowly opening it. Tears started to flow, and Tara patted her head.
"You are amazing. Look at you! You became a school teacher like you always wanted, helping kids."
Rain wept as she answered her. "It is? I'm just doing it for the money."
Tara placed her forehead on Rain's.
"But you are helping others. That's good; don't forget that. It doesn't matter why; you are making a difference. Even here, right now. You are still doing that. Do it once more for those two kids that you saved all those years ago. Make them proud of the hero they knew."
Rain slowly placed her arms around Tara's neck and hugged her tightly.
"But how? I'm not the others! I don't have superpowers! I don't have anything to help them!"
Tara shook her head in disagreement and pulled away, pointing her finger to the heavens.
"Don't be distracted by the what-if's, should-have's, and if-only's. The one thing you choose for yourself is the truth of your universe and why you are here! And don't let anyone tell you differently, not even yourself! Believe in the you that believes in yourself. You are here because, even if you are just a normal and boring human girl, you are still amazing. You are an inspiration and role model for everyone. Even for me." she pointed to the photo on Rain's desk, the same one she took down. "To Aura." then pointed to Rain's friends. "To them." then, finally, pointing to the item that was in the case. "To those kids that you saved. You inspire them to keep moving forward."
Rain looked down inside the case and slowly took out her old sniper rifle. Even though it's been many years, the rifle still looked brand new. It was an older-style rifle with a few modifications. It also had a long strap that Rain put around her shoulder. She stood up, wiping the tears away.
Terra looked at her hand and then her face. "So, still lost?"
"Nah, I found my way back. Sorry. I just got scared. I don't like being useless."
Terra grabbed Rain's hand, and they shook each other's hands.
"Good to have you back, Rain. Let's go save those twins and the multiverse once more!"
Everyone got inside the phone booth, but Rain and Amazement were the only ones not inside. Amazement was watching Rain talking to Tara.
"You sure you don't want to come? Your strength is needed."
Tara sat back down in the same spot she was in, looking at the stars.
"Nah, my story is over, but yours isn't Rain. Go on without me. I'll be here when you come back." She closed her eyes and almost looked like she had fallen asleep.
Rain closed her eyes, trying not to cry. "Right, you will be right here waiting for me. When I return, my story will be over, and our books can finally close." She looked at the phone booth and walked towards it, giving Tara a wave goodbye.
Amazment watched as Rain walked up to her and smiled.
"Tara and my friends told me. Here's my answer to your question about giving others a chance, even if they're evil." She raised her hand and punched Amazement in the cheek, making her fall backward, but she was caught by Rain, who helped her stand. "I can't answer it; asking anyone will never be the answer you want. It's up to you and only you to find that answer. If you can't, then I'm afraid you'll have a hard time with your journey." she patted her head and went inside the phone booth, finding a spot next to Terra, and both started to talk about their rifles.
Amazement held her cheek, feeling the pain. "Guess that means I have a long journey, huh?" she walked towards the booth, closing the doors behind her and the booth fading to the next universe.
End of Chapter Red(2)
Author's Note
2 more chapters left before this spin-off is done
Gathering The Names Across The Multiverse
Chapter Yellow(2): Dr.Wonder
It was quiet. No one was talking, and the only sound was Aero humming a tune, which Eirika joined her. Amazement turned to Discord and could see him reading a comic book.
"So, no stupid explaining like you always do before we arrive in the next universe."
Discord's eyes looked at her and back at the comic book.
"Don't need to; you already know the next universe."
Amazement became very confused by his answer; she pushed the comic down from his face and pulled him close.
"What do you mean I already know?"
Discord leaned in, giving off the most evil-looking face he had ever made, scaring not only Amazement but also a few softer people inside the booth.
"It's just how it sounds, my little mage friend! We're here to pick up 'her.' Your little honey bun.'
Amazement felt her chest tighten, her mind filling with fear and anger, her hand holding her sword tighter.
"You gonna go there, you asshole! Gonna make a joke at a time like this!?" she was gonna draw her sword, but the others stopped her and to calm down. "Get off, this bastard needs to die after mak-" she couldn't finish as the booth finally arrived in the universe and landed on the city street walk, doors opening and everyone falling out onto the busy street.
Plum flew out of the pile bodies and looked around, seeing the tall city skyscrapers and busy filled streets. "Where are we? Another city?"
Every person who had the somewhat same earth in their universe realized where they were.
"It's New York City!?" called out AJ, dusting her armor off from the dirt.
Wanda rolled out of the pile and fixed her glasses. "Also known as the Big Apple! If we're here, then that means we're here to get-" She stood up and turned to Amazement, who looked depressed but also mad. She then turned to Discord and pulled his ear to her mouth. "Why are we here? Isn't Dr. Wonder dead?"
Before Discord could answer, someone slammed into him, sending him flying into a brick wall of a building, while whoever crashed into him, remained floating there.
Everyone looked up and saw a female superhero swinging towards them after stopping a bad guy. From her outfit, Amazement knew who it was.
"Sunset Spider?"
Sunset Spider landed and was gonna say hi to Dr. Amazement, but suddenly, they all teleported away and found themselves in a giant, endless library. Sunset Spider looked at the large group of colorful people and ponies and sighed.
Amazement raised her eyebrow and asked what she meant, which the superhero from before landed and reached his hand out for a handshake.
"My name's Mark, but call me Invincible. In my world, a supervillain named Angstrom Levy has my mom and little brother as his hostages so he can get to me. He's why I'm here; he can open rifts in other worlds. I'm trying to get back home." Mark could see that Amazement hadn't listened to him and was looking around the weird library. "Okay, rude."
Sunset Spider patted Mark's back, telling him not to sweat about it, but soon, a green rift opened up, signaling that Angstrom wanted Mark to return.
"Looks like he wants you back."
Mark took a deep breath and turned to her, smiling. "Yeah, and thanks for hanging with me. You spider superheroes are all the same. Kind." He gave her a handshake and flew off, entering the green rift and closing behind him.
"Others, huh? I wonder if he meant the spider society members that O'Hara created?" She looked back and could see everyone looking at Amazement and whispering if she was okay. Sunset Spider walked past them and stood by Amazement's side. "Hey, are you okay? You look very pale right now."
Amazement didn't turn to her and instead just asked her a question.
"Who summoned us here? Wonder couldn't have, not when she's-" but she didn't finish as she sensed something very familiar, deep within the library, and rushed off, leaving everyone behind.
Sunset Spider reached out to her, but it was too late; she was gone.
"Man, what's her problem? And she got a new eye or something?" she asked herself before turning to the group, who looked at her with confusion and worry. She sighed, knowing she had to take another mission dealing with displaced people. "So, what's your deal? The super bad guy sent you all here or something?"
Amazement kept running down the endless library hall, trying to find that feeling again. Her heart was beating fast, and she had a thought that what she felt was her imagination playing tricks on her. But it wasn't. She knew that magical energy was coming from anywhere, but the only thing going through her mind was one thing.
"How!? I saw you die!"
She kept searching the place, calling out her name, but it was silent. She started to get annoyed by the silence and screamed out the name.
"Dr. Wonder, get your ass out here, or I'm gonna destroy this whole damn library!"
She could only hear her breath, as she was breathing hard after running around the place.
"Wonder, please, just show yourself."
But nothing happened, and the silence remained. Amazement could feel tears forming, knowing what had happened was real. She couldn't accept it, not when her last image of Wonder was her being eaten by a slime monster that Dawn unleashed on them. Sensing Wonder's magical energy, she was convinced she was alive, but it was indeed her mind playing tricks are on. No matter how much she searched, she was nowhere. Amazement sat down against a bookshelf and curled her legs into her body, crying softly.
"For a split second, I thought you survived somehow and made your way back home. How dumb is that? You couldn't have survived." She kept crying and saw her sword; she took it out and could see the crystal blade shining with her tears. "I'm such a dumbass. You are indeed dead. Gone forever." She held her sword close, remembering when she and Wonder would go off together on adventures to save the earth or the whole universe.
Amazement remembered every memory, all the good and bad ones until she couldn't take it anymore. She stood up and screamed out at no one.
"SHE'S GONE, RIGHT!? SO THIS FUCKING PLACE SHOULDN'T EXIST ANYMORE!"
Amazement started to attack the bookshelves, cutting them down and breaking them into pieces, screaming out her anger, frustration, and sadness.
"GONE! SHE'S FUCKING GONE!"
She kept slashing and destroying bookshelve after bookshelve, her anger increasing and her heart hurting.
Amazement kept destroying the place and yelling, not caring if anyone could hear her. She wanted everyone to listen to her screams of agony, her tears, and her heartbreaking.
...Someone did hear, as a shield was tossed between the destroyed bookshelves,, almost hitting her, shocking Amazement, but her eyes became wide open, her heart beating fast, and her sword shaking, as she saw who it was.
Walking up to her is this universe's greatest hero and icon, defining a good woman. Amazement couldn't believe her eyes. Standing there was this universe, AJ.
"Captain AppleCore!? What are you doing here!?"
Cap caught her shield as it returned to her and placed it on her belt. "I should be asking the same question, Dr. Amazement. Why are you destroying Wonder Place? What has made you so angry and sad?"
Amazement lowered her sword, and she couldn't stop laughing as she answered her. "She's gone, and I couldn't do anything about it. It's all my fault."
"Who's gone?"
Amazement started to cast a spell and blasted a fireball to their right, burning a bookcase and part of a wall.
"Her! This place doesn't need to exist anymore because she's gone. I saw it happen."
Cap tilted her head, and she could see the pain in her eyes. She took out her shield and prepared herself.
"Amazement, I don't understand what's happening, but you need to lower your weapon and stop this."
Amazement started crying again, tears falling on the floor as the flames spread across the library.
"I can't, not after everything. She was the only one who believed in me, the only one I cared about, my only friend." She pointed her sword at Captain. "I'm going to burn this place to the ground and make Discord take me back to that universe! Where can I face that murdering monster for killing Wonder!"
Cap lowered her shield slightly and looked very confused by the last statement. "Wonder's alive."
Amazement stopped casting her next spell, the fire dying and her arm lowering slightly.
"What did you say?"
"I said, Wonder's alive."
Cap quickly raised her shield and blocked a powerful stream of magical blue flames; Amazement's eyes were glowing dark blue, floating off the ground as a dark blue aura surrounded her.
"LIAR! I SAW HER DIE! SHE DIED TO SAVE ME!"
Cap blocked another flame blast, and she knew the flames wouldn't stop. She knew something was wrong. Was Amazement brainwashed to think that Wonder was killed? She wouldn't pass her as this event had happened before with other superheroes over the years. She needs to act and stop her from destroying anything else.
"I don't know who lied to you or you being controlled or whatever it is, but she is very much alive." Cap threw her shield at her and ran towards her, making Amazement blast the shield away but letting Cap close enough to grab her waist and slam her into the ground. "You need to wake up! Stop this madness."
Amazement kicked Cap off her and cast a spell, shooting a giant water ball, sending the captain flying into a bookshelf, smashing the wooden frame and books, and sending her through it. Amazement quickly cast a spell, knocking that wouldn't stop Captain AppleCore. She summoned rocks around her and sent them towards the hole that Cap went through, but some came shooting back out as they were broken into pieces.
Cap appeared as she stepped out and smashed them, the rock pieces flying everywhere.
"Amazement, I don't wish to harm you, but I will stop you from killing me and destroying this place."
"Liar! I saw it happen. I saw her die as she was eaten by that monster! You'll pay for lying to me!" She started to do hand signs, which made Cap quickly run towards her shield, which was embedded in a bookcase.
"Sorry about this, but I don't have any other choice."
She reached for her shield and quickly jumped high, placing her foot on the bookshelves and starting to wall-run across them, getting near to Amazement, who began to float higher into the air, still making hand signs and whispering some chant. Cap used all her force, kicked off the shelf, and headed towards her, ready to smack her in the head, but she suddenly felt her body being caught by an unseen force, Amazement's magical aura.
"I'LL KILL YOU!" said Amazement, lifting her sword with her magic and ready to stab the defenseless AppleCore.
"Whoa now, calm down, showgirl!" said Sunset Spider, as she swung around them and used her web shooters to fire a web at the floating sword, pulling it away before it could stab Cap in the chest.
Amazement turned and saw Sunset Spider swinging around and tossing her sword away. She landed on the bookshelves, and the others arrived, all looking worried about her.
"THIS ISN'T YOUR PROBLEM SUNSET SPIDER! LEAVE, OR I'LL DESTROY YOU, TOO!" She turned to the group, all getting ready for a fight. "SAME WITH ALL OF YOU! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR BULLSHIT! GIVING MONSTERS A CHANCE OR SECOND CHANCE, AND WHAT DOES THAT GET YOU? YOUR LOVER DIES BECAUSE SHE STEPPED INTO SAVE YOUR ASS. SHE SAVED ME, AND IN RETURN, I COULDN'T SAVE HER!" she returned to casting the spell she was doing before but saw Bolt and Heat turning into their super forms and blasting towards her.
"Like I told you before, if you choose to be a problem. You'll get a whooping!"
But when Bolt and Heat got near her, Amazement finished her spell, creating a mini marble size blackhole. She spun her hand around, creating a magical gateway to a star-filled void. Heat was able to stop in time, but Bolt couldn't and disappeared into it, and Amazement closed the gate before she could turn back.
Bolt came shooting out of the gateway and tried to get back to it but couldn't get back in time as she saw it get shut. She quickly looked around and saw that she was in outer space, but no planets were in sight.
"This isn't good."
Heat screamed for Bolt, then turned to Amazement, returning flying towards her.
"Please stop this, Amazement! Wanda told us what happened to Wonder: Please talk to us if you are hurting so much. We're all friends here." Heat could see Amazement floating the mini black hole above herself, casting a powerful ice spell and blasting it towards her, hitting her, but Heat kept pushing through it. "You aren't alone! No matter how hard you try, how much you scream or yell, or how hard you cry, You'll need help from others. Ask for help. We're here for you!"
Amazement used her other hand, casting another powerful ice spell and finally blasting Heat away, making her crash into the bookshelves below.
"FRIENDS!? WE'RE NOT FRIENDS! I JUST NEEDED YOU ALL TO GET BACK TO THAT UNIVERSE AND KILL THAT MURDERING BITCH!"
Layla, flying with her black crystal wings, and Eirika, riding on Aero, flew towards her with their weapons drawn.
"You lost your dawn, the very thing keeping you together." Layla summoned her black crystal sword, swinging it down on the mini black hole as it increased in size, but Amazement blocked it with a barrier. "That dawn you have, you can share it with us, let us in! Make the sun rise for her, and we will make the sun rise for you. We will shine in your heart, showing the world you are the light."
"SHUT UP!"
Amazement created electricity on the barrier, shocking Layla considerably and making her fall back to the ground, but only for Cersent to catch her in time.
Eirika and Aero saw this and flew around Amazement. Using the rainbow sword, she fired off energy wave beams at her, but they all went absorbed into the black hole.
"Have faith in yourself and others. You have been lost and afraid for so long, and you're not a bad person; you are a good woman!"
Aero nodded in agreement. "Yeah, what that blockhead said!"
Eirika glared at her and looked back at Amazement, who started to charge up something within her.
"We're here for you. So, never give up on faith; we won't give up on you. Just stand tall and proud, and others will stay with you. You'll make the right decision," shouted Eirika before a powerful shockwave from Amazement blasted them away.
"SHUT UP!"
Flare and others that could fly were going to fly towards Amazement, but the black hole became super large and started to suck everything in, forcing them to fall back and help the others from being sucked in.
As everyone tried to think of a plan to stop Amazement and the black hole, Plum flew forward, looking up at Amazement. She was going to fly off, but she felt someone grabbing her tail. She looked back, seeing Red rubbing her tail.
"Stop that! I need to talk to her!" She pulled her tail from Red furry hands, making her sad.
"I'll join you then, little fluffy tail," replied Red, in the most monotonous and dry tone ever.
Plum shrugged and was gonna use her wand to cast a flying spell for Red, but Red just hopped on her, almost making Plum fall to the ground. Very slowly, Plum started to fly towards Amazement while casting a spell to block the black hole, sucking them in.
The group noticed the two, making Grape and Nanna yell at them, but they were almost near Amazement, who also noticed them.
"WHAT DO YOU TWO WANT!? GET LOST!" she tried to swat them away with a giant magical hand, but Plum summoned a giant monster hand, blocking it.
"Listen to us! We want to answer your question!" cried Plum, giving it her all to keep the magical hand from smacking them.
"MY QUESTION!?"
Plum nodded and said her answer to her.
"I do believe giving others a chance is a good thing but sometimes, you have to work for it! Before I joined Grape, Berry, and the others, I wanted to show everypony how cool big monsters are! Never realizing I was hurting the ponies around me. It's why Grape and the others fought me! I thought they were jealous of me, but they were fighting to protect ponies from my idiot deeds." she looked down at the group, seeing Berry and Grape looking at her. "After I turned a new leaf, Berry and the other girls gave me a chance, but Grape didn't. She made me work for it, and I did, and now, we're best friends." she looked back at Amazement, who was getting annoyed. "If you want to give Dawn a chance, then make her work for it! Make her earn your chance! She's a villain, not a monster; monsters don't change easily, but villains do! That's the difference between us and them."
Amazement had enough of this; she started to blast Plum and Red away with a magical blast. But Red jumped off, drawing her knives and tossing them at Amazement, who blocked it with a magical barrier but was shocked to see it pass through it, and one of them stabs her in the shoulder.
"HOW!?"
At the end of the knife was a wire, and Red pulled herself forward until she slammed into the barrier. Amazement could see the emotionless face of Red.
"I'm a living weapon, created to hunt down and kill all those with the Chaos infection. I'm the living meaning of 'monster'. That's why my grandma created me: to kill and hunt, nothing more." Red looked down and could see Nanna and Layla looking up at her. "But mother found me, saving me from Grandma, giving me a chance to live a different life."
She turned to Amazement.
"So, do you think I deserve a chance after killing so many and doing things a monster would do? After all, I did kill when I was a child. What does that say about me?"
Amazement started to pull out the knife and was going to cast a healing spell, but Red tossed two bombs, causing an explosion and forcing her to stop.
"Am I a monster who shouldn't be given a chance? Or am I a lost soul who didn't know what life meant until I was given that chance? What's my fate?"
Amazement, recovering from the blast, looked at Red. Her eyes were wide open, and her breathing was heavy.
"JUST SHUT UP ALREADY!"
Red jumped off the barrier and landed on the ground.
"You know I'm right, that you don't think I'm a monster; you're just scared of the idea. If I can be given a chance, so can Dawn. You are scared that she can change like me like she was being controlled or isn't really evil. That scares you so much that you're trying to convince yourself otherwise."
"SHUT UP, YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ME!"
Red tilted her head.
"But I do. We all do. Do you think you aren't the only one who hasn't lost someone in some form or fashion? That no one else hasn't suffered, and no one here isn't alone or afraid?" Red turned around and walked towards the group. "You aren't special; the only difference between you and us is that we all are trying to be better in our universe, which is filled with evilness, making you a coward, a monster. I was a monster, too, but not anymore. I have my family, and they are helping me."
Red stood next to Nanna, who hugged her like a mother would do.
"And they have me helping them. We all help each other because giving others a chance isn't easy. But we must keep trying, or else we will truly become monsters." she felt Layla hugging her now.
Amazement looked down at the group and saw them all looking at her, hoping she would stop and finally get her needed help. But her heart and mind were whole of pain and sorrow. She didn't know what to believe anymore.
"I'm not a monster, and I won't let you tell me that I am one." she closed her eyes, not wanting to see them, but she heard a cold voice, making her open her eyes and see Dawn in front of her, smiling.
"But you are one! Look around you; look at the damage you created. Even using that spell to wipe out everything, only a monster will do that."
She looked at the surrounding area, seeing the flames burning and the black hole which was getting bigger and bigger.
"No, I'm not a monster! I'm a hero! I'm not a monster!" she closed her eyes, and Dawn disappeared.
"No, I'm not a monster. I'm a hero, and that means..."
Amazement's eyes went wide open, her heart beating fast.
"NO! NO! NO! NO!"
She tried to close the black hole, but the spell became out of her control; she couldn't undo it or even stop it.
"NO!"
Suddenly, everything went dark, and a neon sign appeared, reading 'The Great and Powerful Amazement & Wonder.' Soon, the spotlight appeared on two female figures.
"What?" whispered Amazement, trying to understand what she was looking at.
The figures were Dr. Wonder and Amazement, but her copy had an eye patch.
"I didn't agree to this opening, Amazement," Wonder replied, raising her hand, removing the neon sign, and then closing the black hole.
"Wonder? Is that you?" asked Amazement, near the edge of tears.
"Yes, I am." she slowly looked behind her, seeing her Amazement looking weirded out. She looked back at this other Amazement, realizing something. "Ah, you are a different Amazement from another timeline universe."
"Okay, can you explain that again, Dr. Wonder?" Cap asked as she helped sweep the ashes from the burned books. "Because I need to hear it again."
Sunset Spider hung from a chandelier thanks to her web and laughed.
"It's not that hard to understand, Cap. Let me explain it without the whole magic stuff." She dropped between them, holding a book. "Say this is our universe, okay?" Cap just nodded, making Sunset pick up another book. "See, our universe and others will have different timelines from different outcomes." She held three different books. "They branch off from the central universe and make their different timelines also branch out."
"Okay, so like the multiverse then?" Cap said, thinking she understood it.
Sunset Spider shook her head. "Nope, the multiverse isn't different timelines. It's their own universes. Think of it like a tree. The center of the universe is the main body of the tree, and the branches are the different universe like Wonder friends are from."
"Okay?"
"Now, think of the roots as different timelines. They always spread out from the main tree, like the branches above, but they have different outcomes than the universe they're from. So, there are infinite timelines in this world. Like an infinite amount of time, no matter what is happening, a timeline could branch out and create a new outcome for the same universe. Got it?"
Cap stared at Sunset Spider blankly. "Nope, not at all."
Sunset Spider shrugged and tossed the book to the floor. Wonder laughed at this and told Cap not to worry about it too much.
"So, she's a version of our Amazement, right? That will explain the not-missing eye and why the library pulled her in," said Cap as she and Wonder looked over to the group. They all just stood near their Amazement, who looked so defeated.
"Yeah, from what she explained to me, her Dr. Wonder was killed by this Rainbow Dawn person, who's also after the twins I saved a few years back." she looked at her hands, blinking her eyes to remove her magic from them, revealing her grey blinded eyes. "She told me her Wonder lost the use of her hands, and she used magic to allow her to reuse them again. Unlike me, who lost my vision." she blinked, and purple eyes returned. "But I feel something is wrong."
Cap scratches her head. "You mean the whole multiverse restarting?"
Wonder shook her head in disagreement. "No, not that. It has to do with the timelines."
"What do you mean?"
Wonder did a quick cast of magic and summoned a small tree hologram. "I tried to look for her timeline within the time-verse but can't find it. I can't find any other timelines at all. It's almost as if someone is forcing all of the multiverse to walk down the same path. With no new timelines, everything gonna repeat the same outcome again and again." she looked closer at the tree. "Whoever or whatever is causing it, if they are allowed to keep doing that, everything gonna end."
Cap looked at her friend with concern. "So, what can we do?"
Wonder put away the tree and looked at her friends. "Nothing right now. The only thing we can do is stop the current problem, and that's stopping the multiverse from restarting." she became deep in thought. "Unless it already happened?"
"Then I'll join you."
"Huh?" she turned to Cap, who placed the broom near a reading table.
"You heard me; I'm coming with you. I can help."
"Are you sure, Cap? We might die in stopping this crisis."
Cap walked past her and placed her hand on Wonder's shoulder.
"Did that ever stop us from being the heroes we are? And besides, I don't want to miss the adventure. I'll help and support you in any way I can."
Wonder smiled at her. "Thanks, Cap."
"Anything for a friend."
They walked towards the group, seeing Discord. Who was in a neck brace?
"What happened to you, Discord?"
Discord laughed.
"Anyway, all board the phone booth! We're moving out!" he removed his brace and wore an old, timely car coat from the 1900s. He jumped on top of the booth, and a car wheel appeared. He honked at everyone, who all started to move out while Amazement slowly joined them.
Wonder's Amazement, walked over to her and kissed her goodbye.
"Please, don't die." they looked at the other Amazement, who quickly looked away. "I don't want to end up like her."
"We won't. Trust me," Wonder replied before she joined the rest.
"I hope so," Amazement said softly, stepping back with Sunset Spider and watching Wonder and Captain AppleCore disappear along with the phone booth....which quickly returned, and Amazement walked out with Heat.
"I'm sorry!"
She opened a gateway.
Out in the middle of nowhere in space, Bolt finally found someone and was asking directions to get back to Earth.
"So, take a right from this planet with a face on it, then go straight for a few, huh?" Bolt and the woman noticed the gateway. "Ah, looks like they came to pick me up. Thanks, Commander Marvel!"
Commander Marvel watched as the talking yellow pony disappeared into the gateway, which vanished after Bolt entered it.
Sunset Spider and Amazment watched as Bolt entered the phone booth with the other two, and the booth disappeared again.
"Welp. I need to head home. Aunt April no doubt worried about me as it's getting late."
A door appeared out of thin air, and walked out was the library janitor and Dr. Wonder's close friend. She's buff and tall with a ponytail rainbow color. Her name is Deedee,
Meanwhile, Sunset Spider finally returned home, opened her bedroom window, and stepped inside, removing her mask.
The figure steps forward, revealing to be the same person from chapter nine ending.
"Someone who needs your help, help in saving two kids."
Sunset Spider sat on her bed and sighed; it would also be a busy night for her.
"Great power, great responsibility," she said to herself before talking to the figure, learning what was happening.
End of chapter yellow
Gathering The Names Across The Multiverse
Chapter Rainbow: A Chance And A Spark
The blue phonebooth flew through the colorful void within the realm of between universes. Within the crowded phone booth, the phone started to ring, and Enmity could see it ringing. She quickly phased through the walls, passed the others, and flew up top, seeing Discord wearing his old timely car coat from the 1900s and speaking to him.
"Discord, the phone is ringing."
"Oh?" he said, snapping his fingers and making the phone appear near his ear. "Discord here. If it's a scam caller, I will find and end you. You will suffer my wrath-oh it's you! What's up?" he could hear the female voice on the other end and nodded. "Right, time is running out, but we're lucky; we just need one more stop to go."
"Hurry. I can't keep the time zones in place for much longer. When I lose my hold on them, you and your group will be out of sync with the Multiverse Tree time zone. Even more so, if Dawn gets to the 'Elyndra Tree', all meaning of time will be lost there. You'll miss your chance to save the twins and Dawn. Please hurry!"
Discord nodded again. "Rightly-o! Time to put this old girl in maximum overdrive!" he summoned a lever and pulled it, making the booth fly faster and causing the group to scream and yell at him. The phone vanished as the booth disappeared into a black, empty, dead universe...
"Where the heck are we?" asked Lunar, seeing nothing but darkness.
AJ and Aaira turned on the H.U.L.L suit flashlights, and even with those lights, nothing could be seen.
"Discord, where are we? There's nothing here. I'm picking up nothing," Enmity replied, scanning the void.
Terra lowered her visor, allowing Celesta to scan the void, but just like Enmity, she couldn't find anything.
"My scans aren't picking up anything, mother. I'm sorry."
"Don't apologize, Celesta," Terra replied, raising her visor.
Discord parked the booth and opened the door, making everyone fall out, but many quickly held on to the booth or used their magic or powers to save themselves and others from falling into the darkness.
Rain aimed her rifle at Discord while Terra saved her with psychic powers.
"Bastard! He's trying to kill us!" she was gonna fire when Nightmare called out to them all.
Everyone looked down and saw Nightmare standing in the nothingness. She touched the ground and looked back at them.
"There's a land mass here."
Discord snapped his fingers, creating a giant lamp, revealing they were inside a cave-like place. With better light, they could see they were inside a dead city. All of the new members didn't understand where they were, but the rest of the group knew where they were and were not happy about it.
"No!" Berry shouted
Flare landed near Nightmare, who looked at her curiously. "We can't be here!"
Terra dropped Rain on the ground and looked out of the city. "How? How is it still here?"
Nanna dropped the few she was carrying on Crescent, stepped off, and turned to her daughter, Layla. "What is this place? You seemed to have been here."
Layla walked next to Nanna. "Yes, we have." she looked around. "We are inside the remains of a city that twins once lived in with their parents, but it shouldn't be here."
Aero landed with Eirika and Twilha on her back, letting them off. Twilha could sense some form of magic. "It shouldn't be here? What do you mean?" she turned where she was, sensing the magic auras. "I see four figures ahead, inside a house with a square-shaped garden surrounded by brick walls."
Eirika touched her shoulder, making her look at her. "Twilha, can you lead us there?"
Twilha nodded and turned back to the auras. "It's strange, though. There's no one else in this city besides these four. There should be at least thousands."
The group followed Twilha, who led them towards a large house with a small library store on the left side. They walked up to the door, making Discord open it.
"Ladies first!" he chuckled as everyone here was female.
Everyone entered the home, and the last one to enter was Amazement, who was stopped by Discord.
"What is it?" she said, in the most dead inside tone.
"You should know." he looked at the others, seeing the new members still wondering who was in the garden while others knew and seemed very nervous. "This is the last stop. Before we head back to my universe."
She didn't look up or say anything.
Discord placed his lion paw on top of her head. "I already know what will happen when you enter this house so that I will tell you something." He lowered his head to her, smiling. "Be strong, Amazement, for what will come after will be worth it. Trust me."
She said nothing; she felt Discord remove his paw and let her through. She walked inside and followed everyone to the garden, hearing voices.
"We have to go, they're coming."
"Must you leave? It's been wonderful meeting you again and seeing you two like this. It warms my heart." said a very caring voice.
"Hehe, talking to you two again made me feel better? Feels like I know who I am now, not some pretender." replied a somewhat cocky voice
"I'm Glad we could help you two again. I'm also very glad to meet you! You look just like your mother. Just let you know, I'll always be proud of you, so kick her butt for me!" laughed a full-on cocky voice.
"Thank you, we promise, and don't worry. We won't die."
"Heh, yeah. You two are way too awesome to die."
The group arrived at the entrance of the garden, and standing in the center, were two ponies waving goodbye to someone as they entered a glitching effect rift. The two ponies, looking like ghosts, stopped waving goodbye, turning their attention to the group.
The ones they called out to step forward and all spoke to them.
"Nightfall and Rainbow Sky."
They hurried to them, hugging them into a group hug, smiling and laughing, while the rest of the group watched in silence, except for Amazement.
"Wait, how do they know those two?" she asked.
Discord walked past her, sat in the sun chair, and answered her question.
"These two are Braver and Blitz's parents, the ones that they created after destroying this universe as a way to cope and not forget about them. They were the ones who started all this by summoning this group—a group of heroes who could save their daughters from a sad fate and to help them move forward, which they did. All thanks to them."
Amazement turned away from the Discord and looked at the group, finally letting Nightfall and Sky go. But what surprised her was when the two looked straight at her. They created a small table with tea and patted the chair.
"Come here, sweetie," said Nightfall, filling a cup of tea while the others spoke to Sky in a group huddle.
Amazement stood there and looked at the chair. She was unsure what to do until she felt Midnight's hand on her shoulder, making her look at her.
"Go. They seem to want to ask you something. Don't be scared; be brave." She pushed her forward, almost tripping her.
Amazement recovered and looked up, seeing everyone walking past her, until Dr. Wonder stopped in front of her, smiling.
"I'm not her, I'm not your Dr. Wonder, but I bet we're the same in how we love you." She could see Amazement trying her best to hold her tears in. "She wanted you to move forward. That's what she died for. To make sure you'll live by giving you a chance. And now it's your turn to do that, to pass on that chance, but in the end, it's your choice, and whatever choice you choose, she'll support you. I know would."
Wonder stepped aside, letting her see Nightfall and Sky waiting for her.
"Go, the final answer is waiting."
Wonder helps push Amazement forward, making her walk up to the table, see the chair, and finally sit down. Nightfall hands her a cup of tea and smiles.
"Go ahead, sweetie, ask us the question."
Sky dips her head into her snack bowl, chewing on a chip. "We know the question you want to ask."
"And we're happy to answer it," said Nightfall.
Amazement looked at them both before drinking her tea. "Do you two believe in giving others who are." she lowered her cup and looked inside, seeing the tea flowing around. "Evil, a chance. Even a second chance, no matter what they have done like killing others, hurting them, or worse?"
"Of course."
Amazement was shocked to hear Nightfall's response, but Nightfall wasn't done.
"Even someone who killed millions."
"Or done worse, like ending all life," said Sky.
Amazement sipped her tea and started to cry.
"Why? They shouldn't be forgiven for that! Why and how could you forgive that kind of evil!?"
Nightfall looked down, placing her hoof on top of Sky's.
"Because our daughters did that. We pushed them to commit such evil things because we were scared of them and what they were becoming, so much so that we ended up causing our universe downfall."
Sky placed her hoof over Nightfall's, nuzzling her face against hers.
"They killed trillions of lives within this universe, but they weren't in control of that power; they also didn't understand the world. Both hated themselves and saw themselves as nothing more than monsters. One wanted to end it all, while the other wanted to redeem herself and save her sister."
Nightfall wiped away Sky's tears and kissed her cheek. She turned back to Amazement, who had just closed her eyes.
"No doubt, by the definition of the word, our daughters are monsters and shouldn't have never been given a chance. But we refused that and refused that they were monsters and gave them a chance."
"Because the real monsters were us, not them. We hurt them, made them kill and destroy. If anyone doesn't deserve a chance, it is us. Not them."
Sky took Nightfall's hoof, making her look at her.
"And you're right. What they did is unforgivable, but they were given a chance to prove that they weren't monsters or killers like they thought they were. They grew up to be great mares, learning from them ." she pointed behind Amazement, who looked back and saw Wonder and her friends standing there, listening. "Learning to move forward in life. To never look back, look forward."
Nightfall looked over and saw Midnight and the others listening. "Do not let the past hold you back. Just move forward and be happy with what you have, and learn to be happy with the ones you have around you."
Sky let go of Nightfall's hoof and got out of her chair. "Let others in, ask for help, and move forward, knowing you have people to support and protect you."
"Forgiveness is not forgetting, and we have not forgiven ourselves for what we did, nor will we ever, but we will continue to move forward, not forgetting and not forgiving, just learning and moving ahead, to make sure it never happens again," answered Nightfall, as she got out of the chair as well.
"To the point that we can look at ourselves, knowing we tried our best, and that's all we can do," said Sky as she walked to Amazement's side, touching her hand.
"Giving others a chance or a second chance is a hard thing to do. It is hard, but it is not impossible. Forgive and forget are the words used for it, but the correct words should be not forgetting and learning. Not forgiving, but not giving up." Nightfall said as she stood by Amazement's side, placing her hoof on her hand.
Sky spoke after her. "Giving a chance will allow you to see the spark, the spark that is within all of us. To see that the chance given wasn't for the person, but for the spark, which will one day become a flame, burning bright and allowing others to see it."
"That spark allows you to hope and see the good. Seeing the spark can help you find the flame, allowing the flame to grow and spread. The spark allows us to move forward."
"You just need to see past your anger, pain, and sadness, and you'll see it,"
"The spark that will allow you to see the truth, the truth 'she' hides within her rewrite."
Nightfall and Sky shut their eyes, their bodies glowing brightly. Amazement could feel something entering her mind and seeing what feels like a movie being played.
"What is this?" asked Amazement, seeing the picture start. Her confusion grew more as she saw Rainbow Dawn, but it was through someone else's eyes.
In the real world, everyone could see Amazement, confusion, then mad, but soon turned to happiness, which turned to sadness. She even started to scream loudly and finally cried as the glow faded.
"We helped you see the truth, something you would never have known. Now, after hearing everyone's answers, what will you do? Will you give her a chance? Or will you still not? It's up to you."
Amazement, wiping her tears away, sat up straight and looked at the two, who looked back at her with hopeful eyes.
"I... I."
Both held her hands, smiling.
"Don't tell us your answer; tell 'her,' sweetie."
Amazement watched as the two opened their wings and hovered off the ground.
"We did what they wanted; now we're off. Our daughters need us," said Nightfall.
Sky turned to the group, smiling. "See all of you soon! Don't keep us waiting!"
They let go of her hands and blasted off into the void above her, seeing them becoming like comet lights until they disappeared. Amazement looked at her hands, finally sat up, and turned around, seeing Midnight standing ahead of the group and waiting for her. She walked up to her and sat on the dead grass.
"So, what did you learn?"
Amazement closed her eyes and answered, "A chance is a precious thing, like a spark we all carry, something that can't be forgotten or forgiven. It needs to be earned, and if it is not earned, the person deserves to have their chance taken. Because they throw it away, it's their choice, not mine."
Midnight placed her hand on her head and smiled. "Glad you finally understand. Now I can tell you my answer."
Amazement looked up at her, for the first time, seeing Midnight crying.
"I had a student who was like you." flashes of her student appeared.
She drops to her knees, hugging Amazement.
"It's not ours to take away; if we do, it creates a cycle of hate, anger, and pain, which will only create more suffering. Suffering is the last thing any person needs."
Amazement felt Midnight's tears running down her neck, making her close her eyes and hug her.
"I'm sorry," she cried.
Midnight held her closer, petting her head.
"Don't be. Whatever you choose, we will stand by you. We will help you and be there for you."
Midnight leaned back, and without a word, she stabbed Amazment in the chest, causing everyone to gasp. The only one not to react was Flash, who had a big stupid grin on her face.
Amazment looked down and saw magical energy flowing out of her chest until Midnight pulled out, and the hole became a marking.
"Like I promised you, I'll give you something to fight her. What I unlocked within your mana system is where magic comes from."
Amazement watched as Midnight placed her hand on the marking.
"It all comes from the spark that we all have. A spark will lead us to a flame, and a flame that will create a fire that will burn brightly within the darkness. That spark is-" she couldn't finish as rifts appeared around them.
"What's going on?" asked Aero, seeing a different universe with those rifts.
Discord walked past them all and snapped his fingers, opening a gateway to his universe.
"These rifts are from the future echoes, where the true ending is being written. It's just a sign the ending is coming, but not right now. Right now, though, is stopping Rainbow Dawn before it's too late, as she's not meant to write in the book of all creation." he turned to them all, pointing to the gateway. "Go now! She's waiting for her heroes, old and new." Discord started to laugh and disappeared into thin air.
Everyone walked up to the gateway, seeing a group of figures facing off against Rainbow Dawn, her slime creature within her chest, and someone else who looked like a small child.
They all lined up, with Amazement in the front and center, drawing her sword and pointing to the gateway.
"Let's give her a chance to show her she can move forward."
Without looking back, she charged through, with everyone following, ready for battle.
"Come on, everyone. Let's show her our sparks that can turn into flames, flames that can burn brighter and brighter, allowing her to see the light within the darkness, that all magic comes from one thing, and that's..."
To be continued in Our Name Across The Multiverse: 10 years later ch.33
Gathering The Names Across The Multiverse
Chapter Yellow(1): ✧Magical Element Berry✧
In this universe, this version of Equestria is very different from the one you know. For one, everything is chibi size, so 'my little pony' is very true. Secondly, the Mane Six got their elements of harmony not through grey stone orbs like in the prime and other universes but through magical animal pets, acting as the avatars of each element they had. Instead of the magical necklaces and tiara, the girls became magical girls known as the mane fruit six, or magical element fruits. Their main enemy is...well, was the evil magical girl, Dark Blue Plum, aka this universe Princess Luna, who goes by Monster Queen as she's a big fan of giant monsters, or if you are weeb, Kaiju's.
"Who are you talking to?" asked Bolt, as she was on top of Discord's head, as Heat was pressed against her on the side, blushing.
Discord sighed, removed his recording mic headphones, and looked up at the cyan pegasus. "Don't you see I'm in the middle of something? Can't it wait?"
Bolt and Heat were surprised and confused and turned to Enmity and Lil Star, who were just as confused as them. Discord sighed and put on his headphones. He was going to speak, but Midnight kicked open the door, making everyone spill out of the booth, and Discord fell down.
"Okay. Everyone out." ordered Midnight, as she stepped out with no signs of cramps, unlike everyone else.
"Hey! I wasn't-..." Discord said mid-sentence but stopped as he saw the dark, cold glare from Midnight, making him stop and stand up and toss the headphones away. "Never mind, we can finish it later."
Midnight turned away and started to stretch. "So, where are we?"
Everyone could see the land was very small in size, like they were skyscraper size in this universe.
"Whoa, this place is so cute!" shouted Heat, who was excited.
"Look, the trees are so small, it's like I'm a bigger moon now!" cheered Lil Star, spinning around on the ground and soon taking off to the sky and seeing a small town not too far from them. "I see a town! Maybe Berry lives there!?" She turned to the others, humming a tone as she's so happy to be big for once. "Come on!".
Everyone watched as Lil Star took off, and Aaira tried to call her back, but she was gone, making her sigh. She and the others went after her, except for Enmity, who didn't know what was going on.
"Um...what's happening? Why is everything so small?" She started to scan the area, trying to make sense of this universe.
Discord chuckles as he stays behind as well. "In this universe, everything and everyone is chibi size. It's how this universe works, like ours; the Aaira universe doesn't have magic, the Flash universe has anthro creatures, and everyone can use magic as a means to do battle with, but this universe is different."
"So, the ponies are small because, well, this is their world? How are they supposed to get around? There must be some ponies taller than this." ask Enmity, looking around.
Discord snapped his fingers, teleporting them into a movie theater room, and he sat down, telling her to sit as the movie was going to start. "Just sit back and enjoy."
Soon the theater went dark, and on the screen, the title, 'マジカル・エレメント・フルーツ VS リビング・ムーン' appeared. Enmity was curious, thinking it was a movie, and was going to learn about the ponies and this universe, so she hovered over to Discord and quietly sat on his lap, surprising the draconequus, who thought she was going to sit next to him. He brushed it off, took out his popcorn, and started to munch down, watching the screen.
In the movie, the ponies of Ponyville were doing their normal thing until Lyra saw something in the sky and pointed at it.
Everypony was screaming and running around as the giant moon, which was Lil Star, floated above the little town. She spoke, "Berry! Are you here?" She slightly rolled her purple rock surface, showing she was looking down. "Why is everyone screaming? Is there a monster?"
"Lil Star!" called out Heat, flying up and next to her. "What are you doing?"
"I want to find Berry and say hello; why?" asks Lil Star, confused.
"You can't just fly into their town; what if they think you're a monster!?" yelled Heat.
"But I'm not a monster. I'm not like my family!" shouted Star, and a puff of smoke appeared around her. "I'M A GOOD MOON!"
Heat shook her head and carefully landed in the town, making sure she didn't step on anypony as they kept running around. "Look, the reason everyone is scared is because of you and me. It's our size."
Lil Star gasped, finally understood the problem, and slowly turned to the town folks, who were all running around still and some were hiding. "I'm sorry everyon-" but before she could finish her apology, a purple beam of energy hit her. Knocking her away from a surprise Heat, she landed outside of the town.
Heat quickly turned away from Lil Star. "Huh!? What's happening?" She saw the beam and the source, and it was a purple Alicorn on top of a building, and Heat could see it was this universe version of herself wearing a Berry outfit, but its color wasn't white but orange.
Grape Jelly turned to her and blushed in anger. "WE'RE NOT A GRAPE PLUM DUO!" She swung her hands around in a childish fit, which Plum watched, amused.
"Yes, yes. Sorry for the mistake, former dear leader. Please continue your speech."
Grape Jelly blushed as she turned back to the monsters. She was going to shout once more, "MONSTER! We-" but she saw Lil Star crying and floating away, calling out Aaira, confusing Grape.
"You made the poor monster cry!" said Plum in a sad tone. "It seems it was a child too. How it feels to beat up a little monster kid, oh great former leader?"
Grape Jelly growled at the dark Alicorn, who was smirking and turned away from her, looking back at the other monster but froze as she realized something about the second one. It looked like her, and that's when she saw 'her' flying to her copy, asking why Lil Star was crying as she flew past her. "RAINBOW DASH!?"
Heat and Bolt looked at the little magical girl pony and could see her racing to them and then hugging Bolt's nose, crying.
Bolt quickly realized this was Berry's version of Heat, and speaking of Heat, she could see her being all jealous. She quickly picked up the little pony and held her with her hooves, trying her best to calm her down.
"Easy! Easy!" said Bolt, rubbing her hooves on Grape's back. "I'm not Rainbow Dash." This made Grape look up and sniff her nose, saying, "What?" and Bolt smiled "My name is Bolt, Bolt the pegasus. A version of Dash in the multiverse." Bolt wagged her wing as a wagging finger. "But I'm cooler than her!" she smirked.
"No way!" shouted Grape, jumping from her hooves. "You are Bolt!? Then over there is Heat, correct?" She looked at Heat, who was still upset, and just nodded. Soon, the others arrived, and Aaira held Lil Star in her arms. "The others...maybe everyone can save Berry!"
"Save Berry? What happened to her!?" asked Flash as she walked into town, crushing a cabbage stand, making the cabbage owner scream out about his cabbages. "...my bad."
Dark Plum was still on the roof of the house, but with her mouth wide open, she was amazed by these giants and started to fangirl scream as her weeb kaiju-loving side came out: "THIS IS THE BEST DAY EVER!" She soars towards them but freezes as she sees a version of herself dressed in white and wearing sunglasses. "Is that me?" She screamed louder and soar right into her giant self, hugging her nose.
"W-What!?" Lunar was taken aback, seeing a small version of herself and babbling about being a cool Kaiju or whatever. Her sister took off her black sunglasses and looked closer at Plum, trying to guess why she was acting like that. Grape noticed Plum freaking out and seeing how Flash kept stepping on things. She sigh and then soon teleported everyone to the Everfall Fruit Pocket universe, where Grape and Plum were the same size as the group now. They all stood in a forest.
"AH!" screamed Lunar as Plum's sudden size and weight dropped on her.
"I'm sorry!" cried Plum, getting off her, blushing. "I didn't mean too, I swear."
Plum helped her up. "What? No, no. It's okay; I'm fine. But what's going on here? Weren't you just small just now?"
"We were...until we arrived here," answered Grape, looking around. "This is the Everfall Fruit; it's where we and our Elements hang out when we're not fighting evil."
"And why are we here?" asked Amazement, taking in the sights.
"So we're not stepping on anyone anymore..." answered Flash, blushing a bit as she could tell she was causing problems for the locals.
Aaira nods, understanding "So, you're a little version of Twilight, or in this case, 'us'." She pointed at herself, then at Heat and Midnight.
Grape nodded her head. "Yes, a Twilight variant."
Midnight walked over, giving Grape her cold stare. "And who are you again?"
Grape was a bit nervous, feeling her coldness, and tried her best to keep her cool. "I'm Element G-Grape Jelly, a magical girl leader of the Mane Fruit Six, and this is our friend and former villain, Dark Blue Plum." She and Plum bow their heads at the group. Everyone said their hellos or just waved, but Midnight bowed back in such a perfect way that it was like royalty.
"Greetings. I am a Twilight Sparkle variant known as Midnight, and I would like to know more about your story."
"My story?" asked Grape, blinking a bit.
"Yes. The one about this 'Berry'." Midnight lean back up, and others also asked about Berry. Even Bolt and Heat asked what happened to Berry, as they remembered what she said before.
Grape gasped as she forgot about Berry and looked at the group, shaking her head. "I'm sorry, I got sidetracked. She needs saving!"
All of Berry's friends look worried and ask what happened to her.
"Is she in danger!? Who's the villain!?" asks Flash, becoming more serious and releasing a bit of magical energy.
Bolt and Heat went into super and burning forms, ready to help Berry and whatever evil she was up against.
Aaira loaded her horncutter, and Lil Star floated above, ready to go off and help little Berry.
"What kind of trouble did our little brave Berry got herself into now?" asked Aaira, while Star added, "Hope blueberry cakes are involved!"
Grape and Plum shook their heads.
"It's way worse than any danger we ever face!" Grape quickly teleported them all to outside of the castle, pointing out what's happening.
Everyone became very confused, and they all looked at Grape and Plum, who both had very serious looks.
"Berry's making all of us train super hard!"
Everyone looked on at the scene of the training grounds near the castle, where Berry, in her normal pony form which is tan skin and dark brown mane, in a coaching outfit and drilling the other girls into shape with a large whistle.
"Come on girls, we need to work harder, so no monsters can kill us!" said Berry, as she made everyone run faster.
A white earth pony with yellow mane who was this universe Pinkie Pie and alter ego to Pink Peachy Pie, her name is Earthly Surprise, as she's the second to last in running laps, until she dropped dead and rose her arm up. "I NEED SUGAR!" she passes out as this universe AJ, known as...well, AJ, but her orange body is red and known as Red Apple Crisp in her magical girl alter ego, passing her and not saying a word.
"No, no, no. You can't give up. Keep going; your lives depend on it!" shouted Berry, not noticing a large shadow looming over her.
Soon, the last place runner was this universe. Rarity, who's coat is teal and her mane is purple but has a teal streak in it, known as Glory and alter ego to White Blackberry Cobbler. She's sweating up a storm and could hardly run anymore. Berry noticed her, took out her microphone, and shouted, "COME ON GLORY! RUN AS IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! RUN!"
Glory could barely breathe and was going to collapse, but was caught by AJ, who looked back at Berry and said, "Berry, I think it's time to take a break."
Berry shook her head in disagreement. "She didn't even do a full lap, AJ. No breaks!" She put her microphone near her mouth and screamed, "RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, GLORY!"
Suddenly, this universe Fluttershy, who had the same colors as Fluttershy but had no wings, was called Posey, and her alter ego is Yellow Banana Cream. She came running to Berry with a hand towel and a water bottle. Berry noticed it and happily took it, taking a few sips. "Thank you, Posey. But please, no breaks. Not even me."
Posey looked at Berry, confused and worried. "But you've been coaching all day without a break, and you look like you're going to pass out." She turned red and looked away. "It's not like I'm worried about you or anything! BAKA!"
Berry shook her head and told her she couldn't rest with any of her friends because there might be a monster or even worse in the future. They needed to be ready, or they'd die.
"You've seen death firsthand, haven't you?" said a cold voice, making Berry freeze. Berry turned to see Midnight, standing next to her and giving her that cold stare. Her eyes started to water, as Berry thought it was Layla, but this cold and dark feeling couldn't be Layla's warm dawn feeling.
"Who are you!?"
Midnight was about to say her name, but Berry saw the others and dropped her microphone in pure shock. She dropped to her knees, seeing her dear friends once more. She slowly called their names, and they gathered next to her.
"Long time, no see, Berry. How have you been?" asked Bolt.
Berry's eyes started watering, and she jumped on the girls, making them fall backwards.
"I MISSED YOU ALL SO MUCH!" She cried, rubbing her cheeks against their cheeks, happy to see them once more. She leans back and allows them to stand up, but she notices something about Aaira and Flash. "You two look so...older!? What happen? It's only been a week. How did you girls get so old?"
Aaira chuckled "We'll explain later, Berry. Right now, we need your help once more."
Berry's happy, go-lucky, and kind look went hard and cold as she became very serious, shocking her friends, "Another multiverse crisis?"
Her friends nodded but also explained how the twins are in danger, and this made Berry even more serious as she pound the ground and started to yell, "What!? WHO DARES HURT THOSE TWO? I WON'T ALLOW ANYONE TO HURT OR KILL THOSE TWO! NEVER!" Berry had tears pouring out as she started to cry again.
Her friends started to worry about Berry, as they had never seen her like that before. Midnight, however, knew why she was acting like this and said it once more.
"You've seen death firsthand, haven't you?"
Berry gasped as she was surprised to see Midnight again and started to get scared as she saw Midnight's cold aura, which was different from Layla's warm dawn aura.
"You're different than the other Twilight I met. I'm guessing you're from another universe, right?" Berry looked to the new group of people and said, "Who are you again?"
Flash stepped towards Midnight and put her arm around Midnight's shoulder, grinning at Berry, "This is Midnight Dusk, my wife! You remember the story I told you, don't you?"
Berry gasped and bowed at them, saying sorry for not realizing the two were married. Flash waved it off and introduced the others, and soon, the girls were explaining what's been going on and asking Berry about what's been happening here, while Berry's friends finally had a break and listened in about what's going on.
Berry felt shell-shocked after learning about time dilation and was surprised to learn how long it had been for Flash and Aaira, while it had only been for a year for Bolt and Heat, but she smiled as she heard that it had been ten years for the twins.
"I wonder how they look now? Do you think they're taller than me?" She bops her head. "Of course they'll be; I'm small after all." She giggled, making her friends happy and seeing her old self again.
Midnight spoke again to Berry, and this time, Berry answered her, saying that yes, she had seen death firsthand. At the time, she thought Flash, Heat, Layla, Eirika, Aero, and Dr. Wonder were killed during their battle against Breaker. Amazement flitch as she heard that...
"I had to be brave for the others and step up again in helping, but seeing my friends die like that..." she turned to her bestest friend Grape and the rest of the fruit girls. "I never want to see that again. Even more so with you girls. I can't lose you."
Midnight said nothing as she saw Berry's close friends saying they understood, but pushing them this hard was too much. Berry nodded and apologized for doing that, saying she'd try not to go overboard, to which her friends smiled and hugged her. But Midnight picked them all up and tossed them to the track field, giving them a cold stare.
"No, Berry is right. Death can happen anytime, anywhere. You must all hone your skills and become better. No matter what the cost."
Grape, Plum, Earthly, and Glory gasped as Midnight was being cruel, just as Berry was.
Midnight gave them an evil stare. "I'm not like Berry here. I won't be so kind." She raised her foot in the air and slammed it down, creating an earthquake. "Run, give me thirty more laps before I give you a true reason to fear death!" She threatened them, making them run off, while Berry and Grape stood there in silence, looking at Midnight. "You two have something to say?"
Grape turned to berry "This is why I disagree with everyone else with you being the leader, Berry; this is what you were turning into. A cold and heartless leader who'll push her friends to the point of breaking!"
Berry shook her head. "N-No! I was not trying to break them; I was-"
"You were Berry! You saw how the girls were! I know you saw stuff, but that doesn't give you an excuse to be like..." she pointed to Midnight. "That!"
Berry was about to argue more, until Midnight stepped in, asking Grape a simple question.
"Grape Jelly, tell me, have you lost anyone dear to you?"
"W-what?" she reply in shock.
"It's a simple question; have you?"
Grape shook her head and said she had never lost anyone, as 'death' to her weren't a thing in this universe, and even then, friendship always wins in the end. Midnight nodded her head and said she understood why she didn't agree with Berry and how she see's her leadership as flawed, but she should respect Berry's reasons.
"Berry, like everyone else, has seen death. Even though I have seen death, many of them were myself doing the killing while under a mind control spell. I, like Berry, don't want to see the ones I care about suffer, and I will make sure that won't happen. And Berry is trying to protect you, like she did with her friends here, by having you all be ready for the unknown. One day, you'll fight against something you can't win with 'friendship'. If you and the other elements fail, not only will the world end, but everything you love will perish."
Grape stood there and listened, not saying a word.
"Berry wants to make sure you and the others are prepared. Even if she has to be cold and cruel, just so you won't suffer and die, She's trying to protect you, so don't disrespect her wishes."
Berry looked at Midnight, amazed; she understood her reasons and felt bad for Grape.
"I'm sorry, Grape. Midnight is right, but I'm being too cruel to you girls. I'll make it up to you all, I swear."
Grape shook her head. "No, both of you are wrong! As long as our friendship is strong, we'll win!"
Midnight and Berry said nothing as Grape ran off to the castle. crying. Berry was about to chase her, but Midnight stopped her.
"Let her go; she'll calm down soon."
"Are you sure?"
Midnight nodded and saw Posey running up to her and handing her a water bottle. Midnight took it and thanked her and ignored her, since she thought Posey was the water boy. She suddenly saw Amazement walking up to her and asking her to start training her. She could see into Amazement's eyes, the pain of not telling Berry or the others that Dr. Wonder was dead.
"If I train you, can you handle the pain I'm going to give you?"
Amazement nodded, not saying a word, and Midnight patted her head.
"I promise you, you'll feel more pain than you ever felt before, and once you're done with me, you'll never be the same."
Amazement could sense the worry in her voice and nod her head and say, "I'm fine."
Midnight nodded her head, believing her, and told her to follow her as she was going to the training field where the fruit girls were running laps to get started.
"And Berry," said Midnight, not facing her. "Sometimes, being cold and cruel is the only way to prepare. But sometimes, kindness and compassion are what make us strong. Just remember, the world is cruel, so make sure you're ready for it. Be brave for others but also for yourself." Midnight looked back, giving her a cold stare and a smirk.
Berry nodded and saw Midnight and Amazement leave, leaving her alone with the others.
"So, do we have all the time in the world right now, right?" asked Berry, looking down.
Heat answered her, "What Discord said—yes, there seems to be a third party helping him right now." Heat trotted over and put her hoof on Berry's side. "The twins are alright. We have seen how powerful they are. Plus, they have each other, and they have their family and friends watching over them. I'm sure, whatever happens, they'll be alright."
Berry shook her head. "I-I...no, the twins can't die. They have to live, or the multiverse is going to fall and everyone is going to die! I don't want that to happen; I don't want them or anyone else to die." she faced the group "I'm going to ask Midnight train me. My magic isn't powerful enough. I need to save the twins, no matter what."
Flash put her hands on Berry's shoulders, having the same look as her wife. "Berry, don't let death take hold of your mind and actions. Midnight took Amazement as a student because she saw something in her. Something that she wanted to protect. She won't take you as a student, and your powers are already powerful. I have faith in you."
Berry looks at Flash, then at the others. Seeing them all agreeing with her, even the new group of people also agreed.
"The orange metal armor warrior is right." said Sunny, putting her sunglasses up and looking at Berry. "Trust in the training you've done; you'll kick ass."
"Sunny! Language!" yelled AJ, fearing Enmity would hear that but notice she wasn't around. She looked around while Lunar stepped forward.
"My sister is right. Even if you don't have any more training, we believe in you, and you can do anything, so long as your heart is willing to fight."
Berry felt happy and hugged them all, thanking them for the kind words.
Out in the fields, Amazement stood there, waiting for Midnight to say something.
"Draw your sword."
Amazement touched her sword, but she started to shake in fear as she remembered Rainbow Sun Dawn and seeing her kill Dr. Wonder. She started to tremble, and tears began falling.
"I can't."
Midnight nodded, said it was fine, and said, "We'll work on that."
Amazement gasped, seeing Midnight being kind to her and asking her why she wasn't acting cold like earlier.
"It's because you're afraid; I can see it. But I won't help you if you don't face that fear, understand? You must confront the fear of drawing your sword and fight the one who took your love. So, are you ready to start?"
Amazement looked down at her sword and started to breathe hard. Midnight said nothing, just waiting for Amazement.
"Yes, I'm ready. But can you promise me something?" She asked, and Midnight said what, but seeing Amazement rage within her eyes, "No one kills her but me."
Midnight stares a bit and refuses.
"Please! She killed the one I loved! Let me do the honor of avenging her by killing that monster!"
Midnight pointed to Amazement sword. "How can I promise that? When you can't even draw your sword. Until you can face your fear and draw your sword, I can't make that promise."
Amazement could only cry, as she had no words and knew Midnight was right. Midnight stood there, telling her to draw that sword. Amazement was shaking in fear, her body telling her to run, but she stayed, trying to draw the sword.
Back in the castle, Grape was looking down at the group from the castle tower, still believing Midnight and Berry were wrong.
"Friendship always wins in the end! We never lost a battle because our friendship is so strong! No one is going to kill us or whatever that means, and we'll win, no matter what."
But she saw the fruit girls were still being pushed around by Midnight, making her angry but not knowing what to do. She transformed back into her normal form, a dark purple unicorn with a dark green mane with a purple streak; her real name is Twinkle Sparkle. She walked over to her bed and laid on it.
"Friendship never loses, right?" she asks herself.
"Maybe ask Berry?" She heard a kind male voice in front of her, which made her sit up and find herself in the Element Avatar Meeting Chamber. It was all the elements, but as pets from the prime universe pets but they could talk. She could see Owlowiscious getting out of his seat and flying towards Twinkle, who landed next to her.
"Maybe she can answer your question." he said, making her confused and scared.
"O-Owlowiscious, but they said that friendship isn't enough and said we might lose!? HOW!?" She slammed her arms on the floor. "WE NEVER LOST! We never lost a fight or this 'death' in the past! How could they say we'll lose? Why would Berry think that? I KNOW SHE SEEN THINGS, BUT SHE'S HOME NOW!" She started to cry softly. "She's home. Why is she still suffering? Why won't the pain go away? She's home; the nightmare is over."
"Not over," said Owlowiscious, making her jump a little. "Nightmare is never over," he said, turning to Tank. "Tell her; tell her why Berry is scared of losing and the fear of death. Berry's your owner after all."
Tank shut his eyes, and the chamber became memories from the past. Showing Dr. Wonder being eaten by black slime and Flash being pulled into an evil-looking slime pony. Eirika, her pegasus horse ,Aero and Layla are being covered by slime and eaten. Finally, showing Heat being killed by a bloody Alicorn as she was stabbed in the chest by its horn blade.
Twinkle shook with fear. "Wait, what is this? I thought death was just losing. What am I seeing?"
"You're seeing what real death is. Not just losing and getting knocked out. What true pain is. You're seeing the truth—the cold, hard truth—in another universe. When you die, you don't come back. Berry new friends didn't die as this slime monster spare them, while Heat came back to life by collecting and using miracle." said Owlowiscious.
She looked down, started to cry more, and started to shake, not liking what she was seeing. She turned to Tank, asking him if Berry really saw all this. He gave her a sad look and nodded.
"I can't even imagine that, and she saw all this. Why did Berry have to go through that? How is she so strong?"
"You think Berry is strong?" asked Tank.
"Of course! She went through all this and is still standing!"
Tank closed his eyes. "Then why are you doubting her leadership? Why are you questioning her strength when she is strong and knows more than you ever will? If she's so strong, then why are you saying she isn't?"
Twinkle froze as Tank questioned her; she didn't answer him and instead looked to Owlowiscious, but he turned his back on her. "Even friendship can't stop death, every story has a ending." he said, flying away and disappearing, making Twinkle even more confused.
"You can't stop death, no matter how strong friendship is. It's fate." repeat all the avatars again, disappearing into the darkness, leaving her alone.
Twinkle started to cry, but a prism glitching effect appeared, and she could see an anthro white mare walking out, dressed in white, as her white puffy jacket gave off an rainbow glitching aura around her.
"Who are you?"
"A passerby, nothing more, I just saw this and couldn't allow Berry to die."
Twinkle, look shocked. "Die? W-What?"
The mare sat next to her and explained. She said Berry would be fighting Rainbow Dawn and would die if she face her.
"But why? How can she die?"
"Because friendship can't stop death, no matter how strong it is," replied the mare, but she put her hand on Twinkle's head. "But that's bullshit. Friendship can't stop death. No, it can't, but you can try."
Twinkle gasped as the mare got up and started walking. "Try? But Midnight and Berry said, "
"To hell with what they said. What do you say?"
Twinkle got up and looked at the mare. "I don't know what Berry said is true or what she saw, but I believe in our friendship! It'll never lose! It can't, not now, not ever!" She closed her eyes and screamed into the void, "Screw Fate! I WON'T ALLOW MY FRIENDS TO DIE!"
The mare smiles and walks into the glitching prism effects.
"Then prove it. Make sure no one dies, no matter what. Prove me right."
"I will! And I'll show Berry the power of our friendship! We won't die; we'll win! We're not weak! We'll beat whoever comes in our way!"
The mare turned around and asked, "What else?"
Twinkle clutch her chest. "I'll save her! I won't allow her to suffer anymore! Berry is my friend, and I won't allow her to suffer in silence any longer!"
"That's good, then." The mare gave a warm smile. "But are you willing to die for her?"
"Yes!" Twinkle answered without a second thought "Because she's my friend and not going to die! Not going to add more suffering on her shoulders! What kind of friend will I be?"
"Good, keep moving forward because this is your story, not fate. You write who dies and who lives." The mare turned her back and started walking into the glitching prism, leaving Twinkle alone.
"Wait! What's your name?"
The mare stopped and answer "Like I said, a passerby. Nothing more."
"But-" but Twinkle saw the mare disappear into the glitching prism, leaving her for good.
Back in her room, she shot up, gasping. She look around and found herself back in her room. She took a deep breath, trying to calm down.
"Berry, no one is going to die. I'll protect everyone." She looked out her window, seeing Amazement being thrown to the ground and crying.
"Again. Stand up. You can't stop, not yet." said Midnight, standing in front of Amazement.
"...please, can we take a break? Please?"
"No. Get up."
Amazement slowly got up, holding her sides and feeling the pain.
"Get ready; here I come."
Amazement gasp and got into her pose and saw Midnight rushing to her. She touch her sword, but still couldn't pull it out. She started to shake, her fear taking over her mind.
Midnight sigh: "You're wide open."
"Wait-ACK!" She was kicked in the gut and tossed into the track, spooking Earthly and the others as they were passing by.
"...weak." Midnight look at her "You need to face your fear and stop trembling. Don't let your fear control you."
Amazement could only cry as Midnight was showing her compassion and care for her, but she felt her anger grow, not liking that Midnight was nice.
"Stop being nice to me! A failure like me doesn't deserve that!"
Midnight was a little shock "A failure? I see no failures here. I see a girl who is willing to learn. You can't rush things and sometimes, you'll fall. But you'll get back up and keep going."
"STOP BEING NICE! I DON'T DESERVE THIS!"
Midnight didn't say anything and just helped her up, dusted her off, and fixed her hat, like a caring mother will do. Causing Amazement to cry again.
"You don't need to apologize; just focus and don't give up."
Amazement didn't answer but nodded.
"We should be getting going, you two!" called out Berry, who walked with the others to them. "You can train in the next universe."
Amazement nodded, not saying a word and Midnight just walked away but stop and shouted at Berry friends to finally stop running.
"Thank the lord!" shouted Glory as she and her friends dropped to the ground, completely tired out, while Posey ran up and handed them water bottles.
Berry walked up to her friends, helping them up.
"I'm heading out again, girls. I'll be back, promise."
"You better or I'll find a way to that world and kick your ass, understand?" threatens AJ, pointing her hoof at her. Earthly joined in that pointing, "YEAH, MISSY! YOU BETTER OR WE'LL TRACK YOU DOWN!"
Berry smiled and hugged her friends, telling them she'd be fine.
"You better be darling. Please come back safe..." whispered Glory, hugging her friend.
"I'll try," said Berry, breaking the hug and facing Posey, who was blushing. "Posey?"
"B-Berry, stay safe. It's not like I'm not...no, I am worried about you. Promise you come back."
"I'll try my best, but I'm not going to break that promise."
"Thank you." Posey was still blushing, making Berry blush too and hug her.
Berry let go and looked at the castle. She wanted to say goodbye to her best friend, Grape, but she needed to leave right away. AJ and the others told her they'd say her goodbye to Gape for her, but Grape reappeared in front of them.
"Grape!" happily shouted Berry, but Grape put her hoof out.
"I'm coming with you!"
"Grape?" asked Berry, confused.
"I'll prove you and Midnight wrong! Friendship will never lose! This is our story! No one else! In our story, no one dies!" She taps Berry's cheek. "So believe in us, you dummy. We won't die and leave you alone. We're friends to the end."
Berry started to cry and hugged Grape tightly, happy to hear that and feeling better.
"Come on, girls, we got a battle to win!" shouted AJ, but Grape and Berry told her no. "What!? Why!?"
"We need you girls to protect Ponyville. If we all go, who will protect them?"
"That's true..." replied Glory, looking at her friends.
"We'll keep everyone safe. Promise!" said Earthly, doing her Pinkie Promise.
Berry nodded, and with a flash, Berry was in her magical girl form.
"...ummm, where's Plum?"
The movie ended, and Discord groans at it.
"Where were the monster fights!? I was promise giant monsters vs magical girl action! This is why human/pony character story arcs are ruining monster movies." He complained, not happy that it was all character-driven.
"I don't know; it was a good movie, and the friendship was a nice touch." said Enmity, smiling and looking up at him as she was still on his lap.
"But not one single monster fight."
"True, true!" agreed Enmity, giggling at him.
"But it's over now." He sighed and looked at her. "Let's head back." Discord was about to snap his fingers but turned his head, seeing the white-haired anthro mare and five others in the back, snacking on popcorn and candy. "You guys have been here the whole time?"
"Pretty much." replied the mare, smirking.
Discord smiled "Glad you're watching over them." He snapped his fingers, and before Enmity could get up to see who he was talking to, they were gone.
The white-haired mare stood up, and the screen became a video screen, showing a red timeline at the bottom. The video wasn't done yet, but she tipped her head to the side, seeing more red timeline bars behind it, and they all ended at different points.
The rainbow-haired girl with the purple jacket sips her drink and then asks,
"How much time do we have left before facing her?"
Mare turned her head straight. "Not much is left. Everything needs to fall out of fate's hands, or everything is done. Not just the multiverse but also the..."
Her friends got up and took out their weapons. A woman in a yellow HULL suit, with purple skin and pink long hair, ready her horncutter;
a blonde-haired female centaur, wearing knight armor, drew out her rope whip;
a white mare Alicorn with a silver long mane, holding at her mirror shield which had a living spirit in it, not really caring much of anything
and a female human with short black hair and dress in a pink and black goth outfit, was just sleeping as the movie was too boring.
The video started to show Discord and Enmity returning to the others, and they all entered the phonebooth. Before it left, Plum jumped on top and smiled as she wanted to see more giants like the others.
The time bar freaked out with prism glitching effects, as it created other time bars but slowly being pulled into one path.
"...the timeverse. All multiverses and timelines will be stuck on one path forever."
The video started to go static, as a figure could be seen within it.
"We won't allow that, F̛̯͙͕̌̋ͅä̱̖̐̃͟ỳ̡̼̠̤͂ë̻̱̗̹̤͇̱̱́͝. Like my mother before me, I'll stop you. This is ours and everyone else's story to write. Not yours to take over."
She snapped her finger, and the video was shut off, but the time bars went out of the video and became glitching prism spider web of the time bar.
"Come on, girls, it's time to head to the next multiverse timeline. It's time to get to the heart of this mess."
The rainbow-haired girl stood up. "To get there, we need to pass through that time period. We'll be seeing 'them'. You'll be okay with that? Because I'm kind of freaking out about seeing them."
"We'll be okay, Rainbow," the white-haired mare replied, not turning around. "They won't even know who we are and won't affect our future." She held her hand, causing the girl to blush.
"Sure thing." She looks at the others. "Come on, move your butts, and someone wake up, Shade!"
"I'm tired." said the goth girl, yawning.
"Come on, Shade. Don't make us leave you behind...AGAIN!"
The goth girl stood up and yawned as she followed them into the prism glitching web of timelines and disappeared and everything went dark...soon the video started to play once more and it has "The End" on it but bugging out with static, till it said "Thei͇̫͈̫̙͂͢r̬̬̝̘̗̬̳ͥ̓͞ Endi̜͙̠̭͍̲̽ͤ͌̄̕n̵̯̪̼͛̎g̷̗̪̣̘̬ͪ̊͌ṡ̸̝͚̻͇̖̘̲̍̋͒ͅ ͙͙͌̅͜ą̠̱̮̪̟͈̊̾ͤͩr̡̪̙͉̂ͦe̛̹̜̥̞̳̠̟̒͗̑̑ͅ ̧͉͉̪ͦm̸̪̣̖̺̦͋̽͊͗į̪̣̉̈́n͈̗̦̱̞̻̭̍͋ͫͥ̕e̵̱̯̳̺̹̽̌̓.̴͔̭̳͇͎͍̗ͥ́ ͫ̀̀̄҉̺͓̝Y̢̪̮̗̜̱̰̟̐ͅo̦̞̬͎̱͊̇̾́u̟̠̘̞ͧ̑̂̈́̀ ̰̲ͧ̈̆͞c̵̠͔̞̣̊a̼̺̬̋́͠n̺͚͔̙̞͆ͦͦ͂ͮ͐͑̀͢ͅ'͌ͨ͏̜͉̘̤̫͉̦͇t̵͕̳͓̹̱̎ ̜͎̃̂͟ş̟̠̮̟̤̲̫͙ͦͣ͂t̵͔̥̳͕̪͈̫ͫ́̓̓o͙̣̊ͫ̋͜p̴̙͉̫͕̗̩̲̺ͣ ̢̱̲̫͕̰ͬ͊ͅṃ̢̭̔e̴͈̦̼͇̯̱͚͋̋̒.̶̪̩͖̂͗̈́̇ ͨ͏̜̖̘̜̭Į̮͖̱̯̣̜͕͎ͭ̐̊ ̨̮͚̔̅̍ͥt̞̝͈̜̟̄́̚͟o͚͚̗͂ͬ͟o̳͕͔̠̯͐̔ͦ̂͜k̶͉̻̩̝͔̩͙̻͑̔ ̞̣̝̘̙̉̏̾̐̀ͅy̨̬͍̔ͦ̀o̧̻̬̝̻̼̦̥ͨͅú̶̹̜̣͈̳̝̺͌̂r͚̲͇̪͉͎̼̝͑̓͟ ̵͔̻̪̤̩̠̏m̴͇̳̘̜̱̫͔ͩͫͦo̿ͭ͏͍͕̯̟͙̮t̹̮͓̥̰͒ͦ̉ͤ͞h͓̬̺͎̲̜͋͡e̺̫̲̖̝͛ͭ̅ͭ͡r̢̟̪̭̲͖̟̤͓̃̾̅ͫ͋҉̠͉'̬̘̹̯̞̭̈̌ͪ͟ͅs̝̻̬̄ͧͬ̐͘ ̰͇̪͓͉̠̱ͧ̾ͣ͝s̺̺̆͡t͐̆̅̔͏͉̞̗̬͓̙̺o̜͇̪ͦ̈́̀r͎̱̞̮̬̽̎ͦ͠ͅy̴̩̦̼͍̱̰̰̘͋̑ ̤̹̈́͜ḁ̵̖͎̪ͣ̓̆̇n̋̂͋͏̜͕̹̮̺̖͍͙d̅̃̅̄҉̮̗ ̜͖͚͍̥ͮ̔͌͞e̻̻͔̭̺̯ͬͨ̉ͥ͘n͚̥̯͓̝̾͡d̘̳͕̬͎̗ͮ́ͬ͢e̸̘̖ͤͨd̈́̊ͤ͛҉͕̟̝̹͎͖ ͔̲̫̟̗̻̫̬͋̕hͨͭ̇͗͏͚͍̰̬e͓̬̥̊̓͘r̷̼̯̙̳̝̽ͧͣ̚.̞̜̙̼̜̺̋̚͞ͅ ͉̜̫̦̭ͪ̕Y̢̝̮ͬ̋̈o̞̖͈͇̒͗͢ͅư̫̺̭̖̮͈̬ͩͧ̂ ̧̙͎̒ͯdͣͩ̚҉͙͕̖͓ȏ̡͈̫̹͙̹̱n̡͙̹͎̩͈̳̱͖̰̠̝̤͇̉̅ͣ̂̉͠'̛͚̤̱͈͉̠̉͂ͬͭt̴͓̬̩͙͙̑̊ ̛͙̣̤̭͎͙̣͚ͮh̺͓ͥ̐ͪ͝a̯̥͚̠͈̳̲͔͂̉̇ͥ́v͚͓̗ͯͪ̀ë̬̬́́ ̂͗̽ͨ҉̞͉͚̣͙a̵͕̳̰̭͐̉̅ ̯͕͍̇ͥ̑̍͠c̸̬̤̯̗ͩ̍̐h̴͕̙͚̟̱̠ͩͪâ̛͚̤̈́̅̽n̴͈͉̩͈͚̜͊̈́ͫc̵͇̻̤̩͕̉̋̒̓ê̷̲̦̞."
End of Chapter Yellow(1)
Author's Note
this will be it for now. back to writing the main fic now.
also, the new cast of characters wont show up again in this fic until near the end.
