Tales From The Omniverse

A white hoof knocked on a yellow door.

Discord opened it and looked down.

“Oh! Sweetie Void! My favorite filly! Kind of you to vis…it…”

Discord stopped himself when he really looked at the filly, seeing her eyes… He immediately understood what those eyes were: the eyes of someone who saw things they shouldn’t have seen. Who went through something traumatizing.

Considering everything that filly went through already, it must have been something VERY bad.

For the first time in a while, Discord became serious.

“How bad?”

“Equestria. Anthropomorphic. Conquered by caribous,” Sweetie Void said with an emptiness that hurt Discord.

He winced.

“Oof… One of those worlds…” he said. “Enter.”

Discord moved inside his house, the filly following him. With a snap of a finger, he made a bar appear, and he jumped behind it, beginning to mix drinks with names that would scare even Cthulu while clothed like a barman.

“You should let yourself get drunk this time, for your own good.”

Sweetie Void sighed. “You are right. I need it.”

At that, she turned herself into an adult and went to sit on a chair facing the bar.

“It had to happen sooner or later,” Discord eventually said. “There are many worlds out there that are very… bad. The Fall of Equestria one is just one of many. The Conversion Bureau was another case, even if not as extreme. Then there are the ones like Cupcake or Rainbow Factory that I’m hoping you will not find, but at the same time that I want you to find to buck some well deserved teeth. And then there is Friendship is Optimal, which I hope you will NEVER find. Or if you find it, you leave ASAP. No, really, if you hear about a My Little Pony MMO controlled by an ai Celestia, either destroy the planet or leave.”

“Thanks for the warning.”

Discord finally gave the drink to Sweetie Void.

The drink was glowing in all the colors of the spectrum, and even some colors that didn’t exist.

“Thank you.”

Discord lied down on the bar, staring at Sweetie Void.

“So, want to talk about it?”

Sweetie Void looked at the drink, then drank all of it in one go before coughing at how strong it was.

Once the coughing stopped, she said, “Those caribou… What they were doing to the mares… and the fillies… and even to some stallions and colts…” She shivered. “It was…” She growled. “And the way they were treating the ponies in general… Like objects… No, worse than objects…”

Feeling her rage rising, she took a big breath while Discord filled her glass again, which she emptied right away.

A long moment of silence followed, Sweetie staring at nothing.

Then…

“I exterminated them…”

Discord remained silent, just looking at the alicorn.

“I diminished their adult male population to less than one percent, and even most of the male teenagers. The females… They were as badly treated as the ponies, but they didn’t mind. Their treatment was a part of their culture for so long that it was just… normal. They accepted their condition and lived with it. Still, they didn’t cause any harm, so I didn’t touch them. However, they were so dependent on the males that when most of the males were killed, they had no idea what to do. They just remained in their homes, waiting… Very few dared to do something now that most of the males were gone. And no matter how much I tried to help them, that didn’t change. I couldn’t break the centuries of teachings and habits that chained them and stopped them from grabbing their freedom and starting a new life. In the end, I gave up. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear that many of them will die in the following weeks.”

Discord filled the glass again, and Sweetie drank it immediately. She was starting to sway.

“I enjoyed killing them, Discord. I hated them. They disgusted me. I wanted to wipe them out from the surface of Equus. I enjoyed when they looked at me in terror, when they ran away from me, when despair filled them, when they suffered. And now? I feel no guilt. I pretty much genocided them, and the only thing I’m thinking is “good riddance.””

She looked at Discord.

“What does that make me?”

Discord remained silent, staring at Sweetie Void, then crossed his arms.

“A pony who, despite all her powers, remains a pony. It’s not like you are a force of virtue or something like that who can only do good no matter the situation. In the end, you remain a pony. A being with flaws, impulsive-even more since you are still a filly into your teenage years-and who already went through a lot despite your young age. You saw the caribou, you saw the horrible things they were doing to the ponies, you got rightfully angry on the ponies’ behalf, and you decided to make the caribou pay. That is totally normal. Anypony else would have done the same. As for your lack of guilt, again, that’s normal. It’s hard to feel guilt for beings who did so many horrible things and loved it. If you will excuse me, I can say that they are like pieces of shit. Do you feel guilt for shit? No. At least, I can say that you felt guilt for the females that you tried to help, and that’s good enough. And best of all, you gave them a chance to change what remains of their civilization for the better.”

“How so?”

“The males you left are the nicer ones, right? The ones who didn’t follow the others, who didn’t treat the females like objects and the ponies like slaves.”

Sweetie Void nodded.

“Then there are the females. Yes, many will certainly die, but some will still manage to break their chains, get over their condition and rise to their new freedom. These remaining caribou will then work together to restart their civilization from zero, and hopefully, in the future, become friends with the ponies. And it will be thanks to you.”

Tears appeared in Sweetie’s eyes.

“So, to put it simply, this makes you a good pony. You did good for the ponies, and you did good for the caribou. That’s what matters. Never think of the contrary.”

Now crying, Sweetie Void jumped toward Discord and hugged him, shrinking back into a filly.

“Thank you, Discord. I needed that.”

“Now, I think that you need some sleep. Don’t worry, I will make sure that you don’t wake up with a hangover.”

With a snap of his fingers, a bed with wings appeared, and he gently tucked the yawning filly in it.

Poking a finger on her forehead, he then said, “Have a good dream.”

“Thank you, Discord,” Sweetie Void said before she closed her eyes, falling asleep.

The bed then began to fly around the house, rocking the filly.

Discord decided to visit Fluttershy, leaving her alone with her dream.

Sweetie Void found herself in a white void. As she looked around, the ground suddenly appeared under her hooves. Little by little, the world formed around her, and before long, she recognized that she was before the Carousel Boutique.

Above her, the sun was alive and was smiling at her. The sky was pink, and the clouds were in every color of the rainbow.

Then, the front door opened, and out came her sister, Rarity.

As the filly gasped, the mare smiled gently and said, “Welcome, Sweetie Belle.”

In the blink of an eye, Sweetie Void was before Rarity, wrapping her hooves around her. The unicorn hugged her back.

“Ready to have fun?”

Sweetie Void looked up at Rarity and smiled, grinning and crying at the same time.

“Yes!”

“Then let’s start with cooking!”

“Yay!”

So they entered the building and went to cook a chocolate cake. But then, as Sweetie Void was mixing, a ball of chocolate was thrown at her face. Surprised, she looked at Rarity who was smiling innocently. Grinning, the filly grabbed a bag of flour and poured it on Rarity, making the mare scream.

A more-white-than-normal Rarity glared at her sister, then smirked. “This is on.”

What followed was a food fight with a lot of laughter and joy, followed by a hug.

At this moment, Rarity said, “You should go play with your friends, it’s snowing.”

Surprised, Sweetie Void looked through the window and saw that it really was snowing now!

Before long, Sweetie Void was with her CMC friends, all looking like normal fillies, but also Kirby, Dedede, Meta Knight, Bandana Dee, Mario, Luigi, Past and Present Sonic, and many others. They were at the top of a huge hill, all beside sleds.

One by one, they slid down the hill. Once at the bottom, while some climbed back up to repeat, like the Scootaloos, the Sonics, Cuphead, or Shulk, others, like the Mario Brothers, Pit, Dedede, or Simon Belmont remained down there to make snowmen, snowponies, and all kinds of other snow creatures.

Then, Roy and Palutena both threw a snowball, and the biggest snowball fight ever began.

After many hours of fun together, night fell, and everyone grew wings. They all flew toward the stars, soon surrounded by them and multicolored planets, without forgetting the Moon.

It was beautiful.

Sweetie Void looked at all her friends one by one, happy to be among them.

Then, on one of the planets, she saw Rarity, and she left the group to go look at the stars with her in peace. Together, they named funny constellations, made funny wishes when they saw shooting stars, and spent hours hugging each other.

Then, Celestia arrived with a surfboard, and she took Sweetie Void with her to a nearby beach where all her friends were gathered and having fun. With them, she surfed, she made sandcastles, and she played volleyball. At a moment, the ball hit one of Bowser’s spikes, causing it to explode. Dedede then got the idea of using Kirby as a replacement ball.

Rarity then arrived, and the two went to swim. Underwater, they looked at all the multicolored fishes, admiring the beautiful underwater landscapes. Soon, they were joined by their friends.

Together, they swam until they came out of the water before an amusement park. Sweetie Void immediately went for the roller coaster, Rarity and many of their friends following her.

Intense fun followed as they did the attractions, ate delicious food at the stands, and won great prizes at the games.

Suddenly, Bowser kidnapped Peach, and Sweetie went to rescue her alongside the Mario Brothers. They jumped above pits, stomped goombas, and, again, had fun.

Once the princess was saved, they had a great party hosted by the Pinkie Pies, ponies and humans. Sweetie Void spent it at first sitting beside Rarity, eating food, before she eventually went to play with her friends.

Olimar then arrived with an army of Pikmin and started a choreography. It wasn’t long before everyone joined them.

Once it was over, they had the great idea of doing a Mario Kart race. A huge race with everyone at once. Needless to say, it was chaotic. Shells were thrown everywhere, karts flew left and right, and Isabelle was the one who won in the end somehow.

They then searched for Pokémon to battle each other. Sweetie Void decided to not use the Pokémon she already had, or else, it wouldn’t be fair to the others.

When Sweetie Void found Rarity again, the unicorn resting on the grass, she joined her, snuggling up to her. One by one, their friends joined them, looking up at the clouds. A moment of calm very simple, but how much appreciated.

Then, as they were all still on the grass, night fell again, and suddenly, fireworks began, illuminating the sky with explosions of every color and every form. Some explosions formed someone, like Sweetie Void herself, or Rarity, or Kirby, or Fox, or Bayonetta, or an Inkling in their squid form, or a Pokémon, and so on. Others formed words and objects, like a heart, the word ‘love’, a banana, a spaceship, the word ‘friends’, the word ‘forever’, and so on.

Feeling tired, Sweetie Void closed her eyes, then reopened them, only to find herself in her bed in her room in the Carousel Boutique. Beside the bed was Rarity.

The unicorn kissed the filly on the forehead.

“Did you have fun?”

“Yes. Lots,” Sweetie Void said with a big, happy sigh. “I needed that.” She then looked at her sister. “I love you, Rarity.”

Smiling, Rarity hugged Sweetie Void. “I know. I love you too.” She released her. “I will always love you, no matter what. Never forget that.”

Sweetie Void nodded.

“Now, it’s time for you to go. Your friends are waiting for you. Have fun with them, for real.”

Tears in her eyes, Sweetie Void nodded again. Not stopping looking at Rarity, she slowly closed her eyes.

She opened her eyes, and she was back in Discord’s house, the draconequus drinking a book.

“Welcome back to the real world,” he said.

“How long have I slept?” Sweetie Void asked.

“One day. You really needed that. How are you?”

“Better,” she answered with a small smile before she teleported to Discord and hugged him. “Thank you. I love you, Dissy.”

Discord found himself without word and, blushing, looked away from the filly while, unbeknown to himself, he wrapped an arm around her.

“Hum. Ahem. Yes. So… Uh… I advise you to stop your adventuring for a bit and to spend some time with your friends.”

Sweetie Void took a big breath. “Yes. You are right.” She moved away from the draconequus. “Thank you again, Discord. For everything. For being such a good friend.”

“Hey. You are my little bundle of chaos. It’s normal.”

Sweetie Void giggled.

“Goodbye, Discord. Until next time.”

With that, she teleported out of Discord’s chaotic dimension.