Smiling Glitches
Chapter 4
Previous Chapter(Mountain cave)
(Don DogDay P.O.V)
It has been an hour since I ate the dead bodies with my crew cleaning up the blood afterwards. Along with the Main 6 are on their way back to Ponyville while thinking that they have convinced a dragon to sleep somewhere else.
Right now all four of us are watching the sleeping cultist who is tied to a chair and his cloak is removed. He is an earth pony stallion with a brick red fur coat and a cement grey mane and tail. His cutie mark is a brick wall which may explain why he is dressed like a builder.
“How much longer do we have to wait for this clown to wake up?” Airazor bored asks while she is flipping a coin to pass the time.
“Hopefully not long Airazor.” I said to Airazor while I was debating with myself on if I should hit the sleeping cultist with a bucket of water or not.
About 5 minutes later the cultist finally wakes up. About damn time if you ask me. “Wh-Where am I?” He sleepy said before he realised 3 things. One his cloak is missing, two he is tied to a chair and three he is surrounded by me and my crew. “Who are you people? Where did that giant purple cat go? What did you do to the other cult members?” Was all he could say before Nyx covered his mouth to shut him up.
“I am the one who is asking the questions here. So you better give me some answers. If you know what’s good for you.” I told him as he looked down at me and laughed.
“Yeah right. Like I should be afraid of a cute little dog like you. Ha!” The cultist mocking said to me thinking I am not a threat to him. I quickly waved my hand to my crew as my way of saying. ‘Keep calm, I got this.’ And once I made sure my crew wouldn’t do anything I then looked back at the cultist.
“Bigger body.” I said as I became the bigger body DogDay. This has put a mix of shock and fear on the cultist’s face as now he has to look up to me. While I looked down at him. “You were saying little pony?” I said to the cultist to which he started begging me to not kill him.
It lasted for a minute until Hard Cider shut him up. “Enough. Now you know the position you are in. You better start answering my questions. And if the answers are good enough I might let you live.” I said to him as I began the questioning.
To make this a bit quicker. Here are his answers.
For starters the cultist’s name is BrickLayer and he has been a cult member for 6 months.
He only joined the Nightmare Moon cult because his father, Cement Mix, forced him to join. And by forced he means ever join the cult willfully or join the cult while under mind control. He will then lose his right to become the next CEO of his father’s company.
I have asked him about how many groups of the cult there are. BrickLayer answered this by saying there is only one group and that the leader sent out a small handful of cultists to do the dirty work.
As for who is the leader of the cult of Nightmare Moon. It’s Prince Blueblood. This answer has a smile on my face. Because I always hated that character. And since I know that the only canon event he had a part in is the final episode of season 1. That means I can take him out once that canon event is done. But planning that hit will have to wait for now.
As for where all the cult members meet up for meetings. BrickLayer claims it takes place at Blueblood’s mansion in Canterlot. With the next meeting being planned for the day after the Grand Galloping Gala in Canterlot. In other words it’s happening after the final episode of season 1.
So far I am satisfied with BrickLayer’s answers. But now I want to ask him two more questions.
“This company your father is the CEO of. What kind of company is it?” I asked BrickLayer out of curiosity. To see if this company can be useful to me.
“Well the company’s name is Quickbuild. And it’s a construction company. We can build anything anywhere quickly, no questions asked.” BrickLayer said, sounding very proud, about a very useful company.
“And where can I find your father?” I wanted to know where Cement Mix is. So I can do some business with him.
“My father was the one who was put in charge of this small group.” BrickLayer answered with a little bit of venom in his voice. I don’t know if that venom was toward me or to his father. Maybe towards his father due to being forced to join the cult.
“Oh.. Well it looks like you are the new CEO of Quickbuild.” I said to him which made him smile a little bit.
“Not yet. Before I could inherit Quickbuild. I need to show my father’s rings to his lawyer first before I take over the company.” BrickLayer said, which made me and the others raise their eyebrows at that odd condition.
“And what do these rings look like?” I asked while pulling out my bag of holding. Ready to pull out the rings from the loot that I had put in the bag earlier.
“Well. One of them is gold with a handsaw shaped diamond and the other is silver with a hammer shaped ruddy.” BrickLayer said as I fished out the rings from the bag of holding.
(Don CraftyCorn)
“What the fu-?!” BrickLayer shouted before Nyx shut him up again after he saw me glitched into CraftyCorn.
“Before you ask. No, I am not a changeling. I just got 8 different forms that I uncontrollably change into at random. And includes the purple cat you saw earlier.” I said just so I don’t have to hear BrickLayer’s questions.
“Ok BrickLayer. Here is the deal. We will let you leave this mountain alive so you can go and inherit Quickbuild.” I said to BrickLayer. The others were going to say something but I raised my hand to quiet them down before I continued. “And in return. You will use Quickbuild to build me places whenever and wherever I want. Along with you don’t tell anyone about me and my crew.” I said to BrickLayer who is hesitating about the deal. But I know what will make him accept the deal. “And as for a bonus. I will see to wiping out the cult of Nightmare Moon. All you will have to do is to call in sick on the day of their meeting.” I said as I got closer to his face. “Do we have a deal?” I asked him.
“Ye-Yes yes! It’s a deal.” BrickLayer quickly said, sounding very intimidated from having my huge head being too close to his face. I then signaled Airazor to free BrickLayer from the chair. Which she did by cutting the rope with her claws. “So can I go now?” BrickLayer asked as he stood up.
“Not yet. Just one more thing before you can go with your rings.” I said with an evil grin which made BrickLayer look worried.
For the next 10 minutes I had my crew rough up BrickLayer. Just enough so that he can still walk and he can use the cover story of him and father being attacked by wild animals.
After he has lifted I then return back my normal small size and over to the dragon’s treasure. “It’s time to tidy up.” I said as I pulled out my bag of holding.
But before I could start sucking the treasure into the bag. I noticed something on top of some gold coins. “What’s that?” I said as I got a closer look. It was a shield generator that looks like the Absolute Solver symbol from Murder Drones.
“This must be a displace token.” I said as I touched it. Which caused a flash of glitchy static.
And once I see again I find myself in the Ponyville hospital.
“What the hell? How did I end up at Ponyville’s hospital?” I asked myself before I looked back at the token I was holding. “Could I have accidentally glitched into another displace’s Equestria?” I said to myself while making a mental note to write a list of glitches I have found later.
“Well since I am here. Might as well look around the place.” I said as I began to look around the hospital while I ignored the ponies who stopped and stared at me as I walked by. All while not noticing that I am leaving glitchy static footprints behind me.
It’s been about 55 minutes of me going from door to door of this hospital. All the while I was quietly putting some things into my bag of holding when nobody's looking. From some jewellery and gold coins to some medical supplies. And for some shits and giggles. I put some buckets of water on top of some doors. And once I had walked away from those prank doors I didn’t see those buckets becoming all glitchy static all over it.
“I wonder where this world’s displace is since I have appeared in their hospital.” I thought to myself as I reached an open door. And what I saw in that room surprised me.
It was Discord laying on a hospital bed while looking like he lost a fight to a hulked out Huggy Wuggy. “At least it wasn’t a dorito that beat him this time.” I said to myself while giggling about making fun of Bill Cipher.
(Don KickenChicken)
“Huh? Who are you?” A small…yellow skinned child in a pink and purple striped shirt asked as they looked at me from the small chair they sat on besides the bed ridden Discord.
“Huh? Who am I? Well I am KickenChicken. A Smiling Critter. And Who might you be? Are you the one who kicked Discord’s ass here?” I asked the child who for the life of me I can’t remember where I see her from.
“No, I'm not, my name's Frisk, it's nice to meet you!” The child, Frisk, introduced themselves with a wide smile.
“Same. I take it that you are this world’s Displace?” I asked Frisk while I entered and heard somebody fall for one of my water bucket pranks.
“Nope, well, I guess I could be called a displaced? But no, not in the same way as you and Uzi…or is it Cyn right now?” Frisk answers with a shake of their head. “I'm surprised you didn't know, didn't she summon you?”
“No I have glitched into this after I touched this token.” I said while showing Uzi’s token to Frisk. Which now makes sense to me that this token belonged to a Murder Drone displaced.
“Huh, that's…..new.” Frisk replied with a neutral expression on their face.
“I glitched alot. So I am not surprised.” I said as I heard somebody else falling for another bucket prank.
“So, any idea why, or how you ‘glitched’ here?” Frisk asks, choosing to ignore the sounds of buckets.
“Well I just touched Uzi’s token and..” Was all I could say before another glitchy static flash happened and I am now back at my world’s mountain cave.
“There you are Boss!” Said Nyx as she and the others popped out of the dragon’s treasure. “We thought that you have gotta losted in all this gold.” She added which made me roll my eyes in annoyance at their thinking.
“Relax everyone. I just accidentally glitched into another Displace’s world for a short time.” I said while I started to suck the Uzi’s token and the dragon’s treasure into my bag of holding.
“Displace? As in people like you?” Hard Cider asked me.
“Yep. Just like I told you three about the other day.” I said as I was done putting the dragon’s treasure into my bag of holding. Then I look back at the space where the treasure used to be. There are a couple more tokens laying on the floor.
“Hmm. I wonder.” I said to myself as I walked over to the nearest token to. It was a small dungeon heart from dungeon keeper 2 game in necklace form. Now I know for a fact that this is Rin’s token. I know this because ‘The Beating of My Heart’ was one of the displace fics I used to read back on earth.
(Don Hoppy Hopscotch)
“Wonder what Boss?” Airazor asked as she and the others walked up to me to see the token for themselves.
“I want to see if glitching into another displace’s world isn’t a one off thing.” I said as I picked up Rin’s token. As soon as I did that another glitchy static flash happened. Looking around I find myself in a giant room filled with toys, all of which are staring at me.
“Huh? I thought that I would have ended up at Rin’s Ponyville or somewhere like that.” I said while trying not to think about the toys who are creepily watching me. “Well as long as I am here. Let’s have a look around and see what I can get my hands on before I glitched back home.” I added as I walked over to what I think is the door out of this room. And once again not realizing that I am leaving glitchy static footprints behind.
“If memories serve me right. This toy room is a part of Rin’s toy factory.” I thought to myself since it had been a long time since I have readed that story. I then opened the door to see the rest of the big toy factory. I saw a long path with a conveyor belt moving down its middle and several foxes grabbing the play things that were riding on it and moving them through different doorways. My attention was grabbed by child-like giggles causing me to look back at the toys in the room I was just in. They had all moved closer but were still just sitting there staring at me.
“Ok. They are giving me the weeping angel's vibes. It’s best if I get moving.” I said as I began to look around to see if I can grab anything that’s worth something in my world. When I turn to walk down the hall I jump back with a yelp. The toys were much closer and there was a white teddy bear that had been right up on me. Its mouth was wide open with sharp teeth exposed and a long stitched together tongue sticking out. It looks like it was just about to lick the back of my head but I turned just in time to stop it.
“... Bigger body.” I say and as soon as I’m big enough I slammed the door shut and locked it. “Note to self. Next time I am here, bring a flamethrower.” I said to myself as I return back to normal size once I think it’s safe enough to do so. “Ok. Let’s go grab stuff.” I said as I run off in one direction all while not seeing that I have lefted a glitchy static handprint on the door.This toy factory gives me an idea. But first I’ll need to see where they’re put together. So logicly the best direction to look is the direction the toys on the conveyor belt are coming from.
The walk was mostly uneventful. If you don’t count the fact that the toys were always looking at me as I moved through the factory the entire time. Thankfully they never left the belt as it was carrying them off. After several turns I came to a massive room with a giant device that was just as much flesh and bone as it was a machine. It had several other materials being fed into it from different see-through toobs, from cloth and stuffing to dead bodies and some kind of black sludge. Walking up to a computer built into this monstras machine I saw that it was going through several preset toy designs. Looking at the slide that fed into the outgoing conveyor belt I saw that each toy design that showed on the screen was followed by that exact toy coming out.
“Rin was always a fan of creativity in her story so… YES!” I exclaim when I find the custom option. “Let’s make some minions! And I don’t mean those little yellow bananas eating nuggets from those movies.” I said as I started typing into the machine on what toy minions I want. First I designed some mini huggies and set the color to random. When a green huggy wuggy came out of the slide I ran over and held open my bag of holding so that the toys would slide right into it. Once I got the mini huggies in the bag. I then went back to the computer to design some catbees because why not. After all they never showed a live catbee in the game so I will make 6 for myself. As I lift the bag to catch my prize I hear some bells jingle behind me. Turning my head I see what I can only describe as zombie Pinkie Pie close enough that our noses touched when I turned my head. She was wearing a badly stitched together jester costume, Her eyes were pitch black with little glowing green dots for pupils and her lips were missing. Torn off to expose her teeth in an eternal grin. We stared into each other's eyes for a moment before I breathed out a yellow smoke screen of my hoppy gas in order to get away. A moment later there was a defining boom as zombie pinkie fired off her party cannon, the wind from the blast helping to clear the air in the room. But as she looked around he was gone. Her eyes crossed as she looked at the bit of glitch static on her nose. She then looked to the floor at the glitch static there. After all, it was following that trail that led her to the little stuffed bunny. As she looked around the room, stretching her neck out to get a better look she found that the trail just ended not far away. As if he started to make a run for it but disappeared part way. It was at this point she noticed something she probably should have noticed when it happened. Her neck shouldn’t be that long. Curious, she stretched out a hoof to tap her chin which was about 15 feet away from the rest of her body right now.
“Hey! Mommy Long Legs wannabe! Over here!” I shouted at the zombie Pinkie as I grabbed the lock to the toy room. Hoping the toys inside will keep the zombie Pinkie away from me long enough for me to glitched back home. Immediately she turned to my voice and charged down the tunnel. Her legs stretching out in the same way Mommy Long Legs did for her chase sequins. I really hope this works because there is no way I’m outrunning that. As she pounces I throw the door open and jump to the side as a mountain of white fur charges out in the form of a very familiar teddy bear. Apparently it got a little too close when it tried to lick me and got a dose of my glitch because it was now giant size. Zombie Pinkie flailed about as she tried to dodge midair but was quickly tackled. As the giant stuffed bear sat up I saw that it had the rubbery zombie grappled in the mother of all bear hugs.
“That should keep her busy.” I said just as another glitchy static flash happened and I am back at the cave, the mountain of my world.
“Boss! Are you ok?!” Nyx asked worriedly as she and the others rushed over after they saw me appear all shaken and sweaty. And I don’t blame them after I manage to escape from some pink nightmare fuel.
(Don Catnap)
“I am fine. I just had a run in with a zombie Pinkie Pie who is dressed as a jester.” I said as I calmed myself and summoned my magic paintbrush to create a mini safe and put Rin’s token in it.
Once I did that. I then put that safe in my bag of holding as fast as I could. I don’t know what the hell has happened in Rin’s world. But I do know that I am not going back there without packing some heat. Anyway, I then let the 6 mini Huggies and 6 Catbees out of the bag of holding. Which took my crew by surprise.
“Whoa! What are these things?” Hard Cider asked while the mini Huggies and Catbees looked at him crossly. Clearly they don’t like being called a thing.
“They are our new members of my Mafia.” I said as Airazor, Nyx and Hard Cider then looked even more surprised. “The first of many.” I continued as I walked over to the cave entrance to watch the sunset. “After all, this Mafia needs to grow so we can take out the Cult of Nightmare Moon. And then built our businesses to help spread our reach across Equestria.” I said as I finished watching the sun setting with an evil smile.
And once, all of the canon events are completed and Twilight Sparkle becomes the new ruler of Equestria. I will then make her and her friends my puppets. And soon everyone in Equestria will fear me and my Playtime Mafia.
Soon, Equestria will become my PlayCare.
To be continue.
Author's Note
Like to thank PixelSprite and ClockworkLich for their help with chapter. And for taking part in the experiment of what would happen if a glitch displace entered a normal displace's world.
Until next time.
