Realms of destruction

“Princess Celestia! We came as soon as we could!” Twilight said as she ran up to the Princess with her friends following closely behind her.

“Thank you girls for coming on such short notice.” Celestia said with her eyes still focused on what she suspected was gonna be the next big threat to Equestria’s safety.

Multiple battalions of royal guards stood around this potential threat, ready to defend Equestria at a moment’s notice. The object of interest was a giant metallic structure, that was suspended in midair by unknown means. It was gigantic, slightly bigger then two barns side-by-side to one another.

“Of course. So, what are we looking at exactly?” Twilight said as she joined in spectating what was essentially a floating castle.

“We have no clue.” Celestia answered with a scowl on her face.
“There was a load bang and then It just appeared out of thin air without warning. Now It’s been floating there for about an hour and a half since my message to you girls.”
She let out a stress filled sigh before she continued.
“Hasn’t moved an inch since, and we can’t get close enough to investigate the anomaly further because of some kind of impenetrable magical force field it possesses.”

Twilight let out a unsatisfied grunt from the lack of information about this thing that had arrived so suddenly. She stared at it and began to analyze any detail she could about it, trying to get at much observational information about it as she could. It’s the best she could do when in depth information is currently lacking.

She noticed the massive object was seemingly made out of gray metal, with white glowing lines tracing over its surface. These white lines were traced in seemingly random directions, never making a smooth curve and only moving in right angles. The overall shape of this object was very smooth and rounded, having a large oval shaped base like an egg. Their was two semi-circles that bulged out of both side of the ship, with two cylindrical columns placed on each end of these semi-circle. these four large columns made load whirring noises, presumably this was how this machine was able to be suspended in midair. On the front end of this mass, there was another shape that stuck out, this one being a cone shape, with the bottom of this cone being flat and the opposite side of this cone had a black patch on it that seemed to be made out of glass. In the back of the structure was what seemed to be one big thruster, but it was not running currently. It had three big fins surrounding the thruster, two on each horizontal side of it. One big long fin was fixated on the top the structure and this fin stretched out across the roof of the structure, gradually getting shorter as it got closer to the front of the structure.

Twilight assumed it had to be some kind of spaceship, straight out of one of spikes comic books. The physical appearance of it certainly matched the bill, but what was something like that doing in Equestria? Where did it come from? But more importantly, what did it want?

Just as she began to board that train of thought, the load whirring noise emanating from the thrusters suddenly produced a load and thunderous noise that vibrated the bones within everypony as it began to move closer to the ground for a landing. The guards on the ground around the ships soon-to-be landing site scattered like ants in an attempt to not be crushed by the massive structure. They regrouped and raised their spears for what may happen next as the thrusters came closer to the ground. The closer it got to the ground, the more dirt it began to kick up, making the guards squint as the clouds of dust was blown into their faces. They all had to back away from the structure as the dust, pebbles and small sticks continued to be blasted in their eyes. The load whirring of the thrusters stopped and the ship sunk a little bit as it settled into its landing position, resting upon four large, sturdy legs that sprouted from the underbelly of the ship. A load hiss emanated from the ship as the hydraulic pressure was released from the landing gear, allowing the ship to come to a stable resting position. Everypony stood in silence, standing still, waiting anxiously for what might happen next.

Twilight looked up at her mentor’s face, and Celestia was trying to stay strong but it was very obvious that she was nervous. Twilight couldn’t blame her either, her own anxious nerves were beginning to make her legs shake. She took a deep breath in and let out a long sigh in an attempt to try and calm her nerves.

It didn’t work.

This floating fortress from beyond this world was potentially way bigger than any threat Equestria has ever faced before. The reason Twilight thought this might be something bad was because of the unknown nature of it. Not only that but there could be multiple creatures aboard this vessel, and what could their goals be? Drench the world in eternal night? Steal all of Equestria’s magic? Perform a forceful seizure of Canterlot? That last one seemed plausible, this current situation isn’t too dissimilar to the time Tempest Shadow arrived in Canterlot. Of course the only similarity they share as of right now is the fact that both instances had giant ships that appeared out of seemingly thin air.

“You alright sugar cube?” Applejack said as she placed a hoof on her friends shoulder, pulling her out of her train of thought.

“Yeah I’m… I’m fine.” Twilight said with a nervous sigh.

Don’t forget, we’re here too ya’know.” Applejack said while gesturing to their other four friends. “If this ends up being trouble, we’ll handle it together.” She said with a reassuring smile.

Twilight smiled back at her friend and placed her own hoof on Applejacks shoulder. “Thank you.” Twilight said with a smile.

Suddenly a large section of the ships hull sunk inwards with a load metal clank and a hiss, and two panels separated from each other down the center to reveal a doorway. The seal was so perfect that it was practically impossible to spot this doorway before it revealed itself.

Behind this door was a single, tall, bipedal being standing at center of the doorway. They wore a regal cloak, which was a faded light blue color that almost made it look gray, and it also had the same design that the flag of Equestria had on it, although it was very difficult to make it out considering how faded it was. The creature also had a white fuzzy collar that looked dirty and stained. The rest of their outfit was mostly gray with jagged white lines, just like the ship. It was also padded with thick armor, with various scratches and dents, presumably from past battles they were involved in. But it was not metal, it looked more flexible and lightweight, almost like hard plastic. But despite this, it was styled as if it was traditional metal armor, with a thick chest and armor plating over every inch of the creatures body. They also wore black hard knuckle gloves and black steel toed boots. Two black boxy weapon were strapped underneath each of their arms, which twilight recognized as pistols from her time in the human world with sunset shimmer. Plenty of other sharp weapons were attached to his armor as well, including two ka-bar knives on his hips kept inside sheath with a button strap around the hilt to keep it secured. On the left leg there was a small push knife on his knee, and on his right leg was an ankle knife.

The more twilight looked at him, the more she thought it was a human. But he couldn’t be from the same place Sunset now calls home, for numerous reasons but the most obvious one was that his face was… odd.

His eyes, ears, mouth, and nostrils were all easily identifiable and visible but the rest of his face and even his hair was fuzzy, almost as if it was out of focus. It was impossible to make out any specific facial features other than a general face shape, so Twilight presumed he was male. She was mainly using details that lied below the neck to come to that conclusion, considering it was hard to tell with the curious nature of his face. One other strange things was the reason only the nostrils were clearly visible was because even the shape of the nose was a mystery. But it wasn’t like there was no facial details though, Twilight could make out his emotions still. It was as if he lacked facial features, and his face was struggling to choose definitive facial details. Like a changeling being caught mid-transformation, attempting to resemble multiple faces at the same time, but also no faces at all.

This mysterious creature stepped out confidently, even though there wasn’t anything beneath his feet to walk on. But right as Twilight thought he was about to clumsily fall out of the ship, his foot actually did contact something. A small area around his feet emanated a bright neon blue glow as he continued to walk down a transparent ramp. The creature looked up and around him at the land he found himself in. He took a deep breath in before exhaling with a smile as he continued to stride down the walkway until he reached the ground.

“Greeting everypony!” He exclaimed with his arms outstretched. “My name is Anon, and I come in peace.” He said with a bow.

“So is this guy an alien or something?” Rainbow Dash whispered to Twilight.

“I don’t think so.” She whispered back.

“Well, if the next words out of his mouth are ‘take me to your leader,’ then he’s an extraterrestrial.” Rainbow said half joking.

“Well if he’s an alien, then we might want to make a good first impression!” Pinkie pie said as she began to hop over to the mysterious creature.

Twilight attempted to protest to Pinkie about getting any closer, but she was practically already over there before Twilight could even udder a single word. The rest of her friends followed closely behind Pinkie as she eagerly bounced toward the creature.

“Hi! My name’s Pinkie pie! Are you an alien? My friend Rainbow dash thinks you are. Don’t worry though, we can still be friends if you are one!” The words were practically being spat out as pinkie jumped in place in front of the creature.

“No I am not an alien,” Anon chuckled. “I am what’s called a human.”

“A human, huh?” Applejack said with a raised eyebrow. “Then if ya ain’t an alien, what’s with that space ship ya came in?”

“It’s, not really a space ship,” Anon began. “It has never traveled Beyond the stars. It’s only ever traveled to and from alternate versions of Equestria.”

“Wait-wait-wait-what!” Twilight said with a hint of dorkish excitement. “Alternate realities? You mean like, the multiverse?!” She said with increasing excitement.

“Kind of, but it’s a bit different.” Anon explained. “I call them realms. the multiverse has infinite possibilities, with some universes looking indistinguishable from one another, only having one slight difference from each other. Realms are different. Realms are almost always distinct from one another, sometimes down to the biological level.”

“That’s amazing!” Twilight said completely geeking out now. “How many versions of Equestria have you seen?”

“hundreds,” Anon said with a smile. “But I don’t do it because I’m looking for the perfect vacation spot. I’m called to a higher purpose. Saving people like me, and ponies like you, from a horrific demise.”

“Demise?” Twilight said, her excitement being replaced with worry. “People like you?” She then said inquisitively.

“Yeah, the people like me are aboard this ship. But they’re not like regular humans. We are Anons. We are all the same person on a biological level, but we still have our individuality, our unique personality’s, and each one of us harold from a different realm.”

“what? Okay wait, you're going to have to take this from the top.” Rainbow Dash said. “Also could you explain it to us like we’re fillies, cause I got lost halfway through that.”

Anon laughed at Rainbow Dash’s interjection. “Perhaps it would be easier to have someone else explain it.” He then turned back to the ship and whistled.

Two other humans then walked out of the ship and began walking down the holographic light bridge. They looked very similar to Anon, the same blurred facial features and hair were shared amongst all three of their faces. But that’s where the similarities ended, they wore radically different clothing and even walked completely differently from one another. True to Anon’s word, they definitely seemed to belong to different realms.

The human on the right seemed to have had half his body replaced with mechanical upgrades. His right arm was made of what seemed to be a type of metal and between the grooves of his arm there was a dim blue glow emanating from within, possibly from a magical energy source. His right eye was also replaced with a mechanical substitute, with a dim blue glow in it as well, but the eye was a bit bulky and stuck out from the eye socket significantly. Wires and many other pieces of tech connected the eye replacement to a motherboard embedded in his skull. He also had glowing blue geometric tattoos all across his skin, presumably being more technological enhancements hidden just underneath the skin. He wore a dark gray jacket but the sleeve that would have covered his robotic arm was cut off, he also wore black tech-wear cargo pants and boots that a had a gem that glowed the same color as the magical bridge beneath his feet. Curiously this man was the only human wearing shoes that seemed to allow him to walk across this bridge, the other humans seem to be capable of these action naturally.

The human on the left was seemingly much older than the other two anons, his blurry hair being grayer than the other. He had deep and gruesome scars across his face next to his left eye; curiously enough the scars themselves were not blurry, only the flesh around them were. A sizable hypertrophic scar had formed around the outer corner of his eye and cheek bone, causing the skin to have a red discoloration. The injured eye had a gray and foggy color to it, indicating that he was blind in that one eye now. Four extremely deep scars streaked across his face, the first scar stretching upwards causing a patch of his hair to be missing along the scars path, it also warped his eyelid so it no longer closed properly. The second scar passed by his ear while the third passed over it, warping the ears shape. The fourth scar stretched across his cheek but then turned to connect with the left corner of his mouth. His wardrobe consisted of a gray military general uniform, with the same white line as Anons armor, although his were much smoother compared to Anons jagged white lines. He also donned a gray cap that had a gold chain that passed over his chest, securing it on his shoulder.

The ponies were immediately intrigued by these two humans, their presence inspiring so many questions about where they came from.

“Mind introducing yourselves.” Anon said to the other humans.

The half robotic human spoke up first.
“My name is Anon, and so is his.” He said pointing a thumb over to the scarred veteran. “We’re all named Anon. So to help with the inevitable confusion that comes with multiple people having the same exact name, we go by nicknames. I’m punk, he’s Scar, duh, and you’ve already met Founder.”

Shock and confusion struck the six ponies, before Twilight spoke first. “So… you’re all apart of some kind of subspecies of human? Is that it?”

“There’s a bit more to it, but that a pretty good way to think about it.” Punk said.

“what’s with all your faces being blurry, though?” Twilight asked. “Cause, that’s the most unnatural thing about you guys.”

“Honestly we have no idea.” Punk answered. “We just get blurry when we’re around other Anons.”

“Weird.” Twilight said.

“Tell me about it.” Punk scoffed.

“Okay, next question.” Twilight said. “Nothing like you exists in Equestria, so it leads me to believe you don’t belong in here. So how did you get here without a ship of your own?”

“We all have the same general backstory.” Punk began. “We were mysteriously transported from our home dimension to this one, finding ourselves to be the only humans and all of Equestria. A majority of us don’t know why we arrived here, it just kinda happened.”

“But we aren’t like other humans that end up in Equestria,” Scar said as he crossed his arms. “For some reason, all Anons are put into a realm for a specific purpose. What that purpose is varies from realm to realm, but the most common reason for an Anons presence in Equestria, is to have a relationship with somepony. Once that purpose is fulfilled. The realm destroys itself.”

“What?” Twilight said in disbelief.

“How do know this?” Rainbow dash said with a skeptical glance.

“Yeah,” Twilight said, slowly sharing the same skepticism. “How do you know that?”

Scar glared at the two skeptics. “Because it happened to me, and Founder’s home realms.” He said through gritted teeth.

“I had to learn that the hard way.” Founder said with a sorrow in his tone as he remembered what happened to his world. “Luckily we got to Scar before the realm got destroyed with him in it… but I didn’t have a guardian angel to come save me. My world crumbled to dust and blew away beneath my feet, leaving me stranded in a void of infinite nothingness. I looked around me, at other realms decaying and I saw the patterns that lead to these realms inevitably destruction…” he took in a deep sigh before continuing.
“from that point onwards, I vowed I would save Anons from themselves, and that’s why this very crew was formed. To save the realms, and to save us Anons.”

“So where did this here ship come from them?” Applejack asked.

“After what felt like years, I eventually fell into a new realm. The ponies in that realm were technologically advanced, and also sympathized with my plight. They upgraded a space ship, and gave it to me as a gift so I could accomplish my goals.” The Founder explained.

“I’m so sorry that happened to you. I-I can’t imagine the terror you must’ve experienced.” Twilight said sympathetically.

“It’s a fate I wish for no other Anon.” Founder said.

“So Anon, err Founder, are you here because you intend on saving or realm’s Anon?” Twilight asked.

“We hope to,” Scar said. “Analysis of this realm indicates that your Anon will arrive shortly. We mean to learn his intentions, and we will act appropriately.”

“Act appropriately?” Rainbow Dash said with a cocked eyebrow.

“I don’t think we mentioned the numerous evil Anons we’ve had to deal with.” Punk said leaning over to Scar.

Scar grumbled, giving a glare back at punk. He then turned back to the ponies. “Not every Anon is destined for a path of righteousness. Often, they have evil intentions. Sometimes we get to a realm before they’re able to do anything. Other times… we’re too late, and we must fight.” Scar said before emphasizing his extremely visible scars.
“And we don’t always make it out unscathed.”

“We’ve had to… kill a lot of Anons.” Punk began. “None of us are proud of what we’ve had to do. But, when an Anon corrupts the minds of nearly everypony in that realm, cutting the head off and watching the body die is the only logical course of action at that point.”

“Well, hopefully it doesn’t have to come to that.” Rarity said, trying to lighten the mood. “When is our Anon scheduled to arrive, anyway?”

Founder looked back at the other two Anons to see if they had the answers Rarity wanted. Scar shook his head and Punk shrugged exaggeratedly, both unsure of the answer to that question. Founder pinched the bridge of his nose in annoyance.

“goddammit, we don’t know. We’d have to back to the ship to figure that out, because apparently a guy who’s brain is half a computer can’t figure it out.” Founder said glaring at Punk.

“You won’t allow me to hook up to ships mainframe.” Punk said defensively.

“Yeah, because I don’t want you connecting to the security cameras and watching us while we take a shit.” Founder said with his hands on his hips. His language causing Rainbow dash and Pinkie Pie to snicker.
“We’ll be right back.”

“Can we come with?” Twilight asked enthusiastically.

“NO!” Scar snarled. The sudden anger made Twilight and the other ponies flinch.

Founder raised his hand to stop him from yelling any further. He then turned back to Twilight and her friends. “You may, but no wondering around, or touching anything that looks important unless I say it is okay to do so, got it?”

“Got it!” Twilight said with a nod. “Just got to go tell Celestia to stand down real quick.”

“Alright,” Founder said with bit of a grimace, before quickly transitioning to a smile. “We’ll be waiting right here.”

Twilight ran off backwards past her friends and then took off in flight towards the princess enthusiastically. Founder then leaned over to punk and whispered something to him that the other ponies couldn’t hear.

“lock up the east wing.”

Punk nodded then took off into the ship, and once he disappeared into the ship a load booming voice was heard echoing throughout the field.

”ROYAL GUARDS! STAND DOWN!”

Celestia’s royal Canterlot voice rang out across the flat, empty field. The guard followed their orders and lowered their spears and stood at attention, waiting for their next command.

Twilight then flew back to the Anons, coming in for a touch down in front of her friends. “Alright, we’re good.” She said with pant. “I’m going to ask you a lot more questions, if that’s okay with you.”

“Most Twilight’s do.” Founder said with a hand wave to get the ponies to follow him onto the ship.

Him and Scar then slammed both of their boots twice on the invisible ramp, as soon as second impact happened, the whole light bridge was revealed. Twilight hesitantly stretched her hoof out to touch the ramp. When her hoof hit a solid foundation she confidently trotted on it, catching up to the humans to continue talking with them, her friend closely following behind.

“Okay, first things first.” Twilight said. “Can you elaborate on how Anons are unique, but also the same person?”

“It’s a bit complicated,” Founder said. “Anons can vary in personality, morals, way of speaking, clothing we wear, sexual orientation, etcetera, etcetera.”

“Biologically, it’s a different story.” Scar added.

“Yeah but even then it’s still complicated.” Founder said. “every strand of our DNA is nearly identical to any other Anons DNA. But strangely enough each DNA sample has a few tiny Details that actually differentiated it from other DNA strands. We presume that dictates the different personalities we have, amongst other things.”

“Very interesting.” Twilight said more to herself than to the humans. “And do you all have nicknames, or just the important Anons?”

“Usually it’s only the Anons of higher ranking yes, but there is a few exceptions.” Founder answered. “People like Scar here, were given an official nickname so other Anons know he’s someone you should listen to. Others are given unofficial nicknames because of something they did or said that has become apart of their reputation, like Scales, Trix, Chaser, Spice, and a few others.”

“How do you tell everypony apart?” Twilight said.

“Well, faces as you know are an unreliable way of telling each other apart,” Founder explained. “everything below the neck is a distinguishing feature for Anons. So we don’t issue a uniform, only a wristband to signify they’re on our crew. The rest of there wardrobe are the clothes they were wearing when we found them.”

“Fascinating.” Twilight said, but before she could ask anymore questions, Founder raised his hand.

“I’m afraid your questioning will have to be paused for the moment. Me and Scar have to depart to the command deck, an area which I do not permit you access to.” he then pointed down the hallway. “Down there you will find the food court, it’s where most Anons find themselves at most hours of the day. They might be able to answer anymore questions you might have.”

“Oh, okay! See you soon!” Twilight said beaming with excitement as she trotted down the hall with her friends.

Twilight excitedly pushed past her friends to arrive at the food court as quickly as possible,
her friend following behind her as she continued to trot down the hall, until they quit literally bumped into a random Anon. Her muzzle smacked into his pelvis, causing this Anon to grunt in shock and discomfort from the sudden sensation of the princess of friendship running right into him like a dog with a major case of the zoomies.

“Oh my gosh! I’m so sorry!” Twilight said frantically.

“No worries, it didn’t hurt that bad anyway.” Anon said.

He then got a look at his assailant and wore a skeptical look when he noticed it was Twilight and her friends.
“Uhh, who allowed you onto the ship though?” The Anon said with confusion.

“The Founder did, darling.” Rarity said.

“Oh, okay then.” Anon said, shedding any sense of worry he had about the ponies presence. “Were you heading somewhere?”

“The food court, I want to talk to more of you Anon’s.” Twilight said, trying to contain her excitement.

“That would be down this hall,” he said while pointing down a corridor. “It’ll be your third left, then your second right, then you’ll be there. Cant miss it.”

Twilight mumbled the direction back to herself before giving an ecstatic “Thank you!” To the helpful Anon before making a brake for it.

“Twilight! Wait up!” Rainbow dash said as she, and the rest off her friends, tried to catch up to her friend. Rainbow was running along side her friend, seemingly unable to fly for some odd reason.

“Sorry girls, I’m just so exited to learn everything I can about these humans!” Twilight said.

“We can tell,” Applejack said. “But we gotta stick together ya’know. It seems very easy to get lost up in here, and that Founder feller said he didn’t want us wondering off.”

“Yeah, you’re right.” Twilight said before slowing down and taking a deep breath.

“You think he’s hiding something?” Rainbow Dash asked the other girls.

“Oh most certainly,” Rarity exclaimed. “Especially that Scar fellow.”

“Yeah, I don’t trust that rude asshole as far as a can throw’em.” Applejack concurred.

“Come on girls,” Twilight protested. “Stop speculating on the integrity of the creature that are allowing us on their ship.”

“But Twilight,” Rainbow Dash interjected. “What if it’s something that could possibly be a threat to Equestria.”

Twilight thought about her answer for a bit before she spoke. “If they were here to harm us, they would not have introduced themselves, they would’ve just attacked us.”

“I’m still gonna have my suspicions about these guys.” Rainbow said with a scowl. “Especially with Scar.”

“He even sounds evil!” Pinkie interjected.

“Right!” Rainbow exclaimed. “Like, who is named ‘Scar’ and not evil.”

Twilight rolled her eyes. “If he poses any kind of threat, we’ll inform the Founder and have him deal with it,” Twilight said before giving a stern glare back at Rainbow. “We are NOT getting wrapped up and involving ourselves in any kind of drama with these humans.”

“Okay, okay. I got it.” Rainbow said with her hoofs up in defense.

They then rounded the last corner and came across a wide open room, with lots of long rectangular tables with a ton of Anons seated at them, either eating or just simply talking amongst each other. There were so many personalities present simply from the way each Anon was dressed. One Anon wore a jean jacket and had a chain on the belt loop of his jeans. He was talking and laughing with an Anon that had glasses and a T-shirt that had what looked like human superhero’s, similar to Spike’s ‘power ponies’ comics. There was an Anon that looked like he had seemingly come from some kind of post apocalyptic realm, and there was even a few female Anon’s. Every Anon was strikingly different from each other, and there was so many that Twilight could View them from a distance forever, she didn’t know who to talk to first.

Before she could introduce herself though, the Anon in the Jean jacket pointed at her and made an announcement.

“Hey! It’s the elements of harmony!” He yelled out, causing the other Anons to cheer at their arrival, causing a variety of reactions from the ponies.

Twilight waved with an awkward smile and a small blush. Applejack smirked and tipped her hat towards the crowd. Rainbow Dash smugly grinned as she outstretched her hoofs with a cocky yeah, it’s me attitude. Pinkie Pie enthusiastically, and exaggeratedly waved her hoof and then blew a few kisses out with both her hoofs. Rarity would simply swoosh her mane to the side before giving small wave. Fluttershy would hide behind her mane and sheepishly wave with a blush and a smile.

Some of the other stoic looking Anons that seemed to be acting as guards talked into the wristband they had on that Founder mentioned earlier. They were likely confirming that the ponies were allowed on the ship like the earlier Anon did. Once they got the confirmation their demeanors seemed to lighten up, except for one.

He was a tall man with a long black leather trench coat, with almost too many buttons, zippers and chains attached to it. He had a popped collar that had way too many unbuttoned, button straps on it as well. He also had a belt buckle strapped across his chest, and two additional buckle straps across each of his wrists. Each belt buckle had a square shape and was designed to look like a chain, and each button had a ram skull design embedded onto it. The back of his coat had a red Japanese symbol on it, and he was armed with a katana. He had black leather pants with big black boots that had a comical large amount of chains attached to it as well, with small metal bits on the tow and heels of the boot. They didn’t look like steel toed boots though, the metal on it seemed to be purely decorative. His blurry hair was the most unique out of all Anons, it was jet black and covered part of his face only allowing one eye to be fully revealed. This eye also glowed a bright, crimson red, and he used this eyes to stare at the ponies with a scowl for some unknown reason.

“Hey, come sit with us!” One Anon yell to Twilight. “I love talking to the different versions of you!”

“Oh, well… thank you.” She blushed.

“I’m assuming you got questions.” The Anon asked rhetorically.

“I’ve got quite a lot of questions, yeah.” Twilight said, sitting across from the human now.

The other members of the elements of harmony would also dispersed amongst the crowd, talking and mingling with the other Anons.

“and how was your Equestria?” Twilight asked an Anon that had a slight Irish accent with an outfit to match.

“Bleak.” He answered. “Not a very nice place, at least not in the area of Manehattan I lived in.”

“I’m sorry,” Twilight said with a hoof outstretched towards him on the table in a sympathetic gesture. “So, why did this crew pick you up?”

“They told me that if I continued down the path I was headed, I’d find love with somepony. At first I didn’t think that was such a bad thing, all things considered. But then they told me that the realm would crumble if that happened, so I decided it was probably for the best that I just disappeared.”

Twilight eyebrows furrowed in sadness, then leaned over to another Anon. “What about you? Why’d this crew pick you up.”

“I was dating my realms version of Applejack.” the Anon wearing a southern looking, blue button up with oil Stained jeans and withered boots.
“It hurt me to leave her behind. But I also couldn’t bear being the reason her and that realm would die if we… ya’know.” He said, pitching the bridge of his nose to try and stop the tears from flowing.
“So they took me in, and I try not to look back too often… Hurts too much to think about.” He said as he took a swig of alcohol in an attempt to numb the pain.

“That’s terrible.” Twilight said, her heart aching for all the Anon's stories. “I wish there was away for us to help.”

“Trust us Twilight,” the Irish Anon spoke again. “If we could solve this problem in anyway, we wouldn’t be here right now.”

Suddenly Punk appeared and interjected himself into the conversation. “The best we can do is save these Anons, and rid other realms from evil Anons when we come across them.”

“Unless they sneak onto the ship.” Irish Anon said.

“You talkin bout that freaky mofo on the east wing.” Southern Anon asked.

“Who else.” Irish said with a tone as if it was obvious.

Twilight look at the Anons confused. “What’s, on the east wing?”

“Goddammit you two.” Punk said in annoyance. “How about we don’t talk about that shit in front of non-Anons.” He said angrily.

“Sorry, Christ all mighty.”

“Sorry, good lord.”

Irish and southern Anon said in announce, seemingly been told this multiple times before.

“Why? What over there.” Twilight prodded.

“You don’t wanna see it.” He warned before sitting down, the Anons around him being significantly less chatty now.

“Okay,” Twilight said awkwardly. “Well anyways, since you’re here now. What kind of equestria did you come from?” She said changing the subject.

“Well I came from a realm that was significantly different from most other realms.” Punk began. “For example the ponies were more, human like. They still had hoofs and pony heads but from the knees up until there necks, they were indistinguishable from humans.”

“Really?” Twilight asked. “That odd.”

“I thought it was normal until I saw most other Equestria’s resident were ponies like you.” Punk said with a small chuckle.
“On top of my Equestria being filled with anthropomorphic ponies, the aesthetic was also very different.” Punk then rested his elbows on the table as he continued to speak.
“To give a basic rundown of what my realm looked like, my nickname is a play on my Equestria’s aesthetic. Punk comes from cyberpunk.”

“Oh, fascinating.” Twilight said with intrigue. “Did the crew come for you for the same reason it did the rest of these Anons?”

“Yeah,” Punk said with a sad expression. “When they arrived at my realm, they told me everything that would happen if I continued to pursue a relationship with the pony I was eyeing to be my special somepony. I thought they were lying, trying to kill me or something.”

“Why?” Twilight said with a bit of laugh.

“That’s a bit of a long story, I can tell you that at another time.” Punk said.

“Alright then.” Twilight said. “Please, continue.”

“Well like I said, I thought they wanted to kill me, so I ran. Founder, Scar, Edge and a few others Anons chased me through my cyberpunk dystopian Canterlot, and I almost lost them too. But eventually Founder got in front of me, and ended the chase. After some convincing, I agreed to tag along with him and his crew. But Founder doesn’t trust me with access to most of the ships utilities considering my arm is capable of easily hacking into the most electrical systems.” Punk said as he flexed the joint of his robotic arm.
“My anti-establishment lifestyle before becoming apart of this crew also didn’t help much.” He said with a laugh.

“I’m guessing that why you’re the only Anon that needs special boots to walk on that ramp outside.” Twilight said.

“Yep,” Punk said. “I’m also the only Anon that doesn’t have a wristband. It’s a communication device, and they think I can reverse engineer it or some shit.”

“Can you?” Twilight asked innocently.

“If I tinker with it long enough I could probably do something with it.” He said with a laugh.

Twilight laughed along before her mood shifted to a more negative one. “So they restrict you from most of the essentials on the ship because of the possibility you might tamper with the equipment?”

“I understand where your minds at, but it’s fine Twi. I understand the concerns they have and I’m contempt with the restrictions.” Punk said.

“Okay then,” she said, unconvinced. “well moving on to your arm, I’ve never seen anything like it before, what’s it made out of? How does it work?” She asked inquisitively.

“If I start explaining how it works in detail, we’ll be here all day. But what I will say is it’s powered by magic, it’s a self-sustaining power source so I never have to worry about loosing charge.” He then stretched his arm out so Twilight could get a up close look at it as he spoke.
“The material itself is a material called polycarbonate plastic, it’s about as strong as steel but light as, well, plastic.” He then pointed at his head.
“This is a different material called 2DPA-1, twice as strong as steel, lightweight, and air tight to protect all the vital electronics that it houses.”

“Incredible.” Twilight said with a smile. “Is that it? Cause it looks like you have more things under the skin.”

“Yeah, it’s a variety of performance enhancers. like adrenaline boosts, pain inhibitors, reinforced muscles, upgraded stamina. It’s a bunch of shit I got over the course of ten years that basically made me super human.”

“Very interesting,” Twilight said as she studied the tattoos on his skin. “Maybe we could do some tests to show off your abilities.” She said excitedly.

“I could use the exercise.” He joked.

“And one last question,” Twilight said. “Earlier you mentioned Founder, and Scar chased you. Obviously I'm acquainted with them, but who was Edge?”

“That’s the nickname for that Anon right there.” Punk said as he pointed toward the Anon in the gothic trench coat brooding in the corner.

He had been eyeing her up the entire time, and he took being pointed at as an indication to walk over to them. Judging by Punk’s exasperated and annoyed sigh, he didn’t intend on have him come over.

“Why are you roping me into this pathetic conversation.” He said to Punk with venom in his voice.

Twilight scowled in disgust at the immediate angry tone this Anon possessed just because he was simply pointed at. She already didn’t like this guy.

“She ask me were I came from, you’re unfortunately apart of that story.” Punk said matter-of-factly.

“You better be recalling that day correctly.” He said threateningly, but Punk didn’t seem to be fazed by his tone.

“Yeah, I was just getting to the part of the story where you pulled out that dinky little katana and tried to cut me open with it.” Punk said.

“Ahh yes. The only reason you were spared that day was because I was told to keep you alive, I would have easily killed you and bathed in your blood otherwise.” Edge said egotistically.

“Yeah, no,” Punk said with an eye roll. “That’s not what happened, like, at all.” Edge glared at Punk as he continued to speak.
“When you pulled that katana out on me, I pulled out my own sword that is vastly superior to yours, and nearly chopped your fucking head off.”

Edge fake laughed at the statement Punk said. “You honestly think you could have bested me?” He then laughed again in an obviously fake and exaggerated manner.

The way he laughed for some reason really got under Twilights skin. It was so condescending and irritating, like he thought he was better than everypony else. The other Anons were now turning around and listening in on the scene Edge was causing. Twilight’s friend were also included in the eavesdropping, each of them having an Anon whisper to them. Presumably, they were telling each of her friends who the Anons involved are, and how much of an asshole this Edge guy is. Some Anons tried yelling out to the Anons involved to knock it off, but Edge simply ignored them.

“Yeah, I do.” Punk said staring daggers into the Edge’s eyes. “I could kill right now if I wanted to.”

“You are an idiotic ape if you think you could best me in combat.” Edge said.

“Anybody here could beat you if they tried. But Founder’s number one rule is ‘no killing on the ship.’” As Punk rose from his seat so did the anger in his voice.
“So this whole scene you’re causing right now is nothing but fucking talk!” Punk yelled as he got up from his seat.

“Sit your pathetic ass back down!” Edge yelled as he pointed at Punk like a dog.

“FUCK YOU!” Punk spat out.

“HEY!” A third booming voice rang out, silencing everyone. It was Founder, and he looked pissed off as he march towards Edge and Punk and continued to yell at the two Anons.
“The fuck is your problem!” He said addressing the both of them.

“That jackass is starting shit again.” Punk said pointing at Edge who stood there with his arms crossed.

“Edge,” Fonder said with a glare. “I’ve gotten repeated complaints about you. You have caused nothing but trouble between you and the other Anons. I understand you prefer being a loner, but if you don’t knock this shit off I’m going to have to do something about it.”

“Apologies, Founder.” Edge said with a hand over his heart and taking a bow. Causing Punk to rolled his eyes.

Founder grumbled. “Anyway I have a mission for you. A simple one, just grab the Anon of this realm.”

“Understood.” Edge said.

“You will be accompanied by green squad. I need him back here for studies though, he has a weird frequency. We need to make sure it’s harmless before we take any kind of actions against him. So don’t kill him.”

“Understood.” Edge said again.

“C-can we come with?” Twilight asked timidly.

Founder thought for a moment before answering. “I’ll allow it.” He answered, causing Edge to grow a look of disgust towards Twilight.

Founder then talked into his wristband. “Scar, rally some of green squads members for a simple extraction led by Edge. Twilight is tagging along as well.”

He then walked out of the dining hall, but the room stayed silent. Many Anons finding it hard to talk about anything else after what just happened.

“Why do you want to follow me around like a pet.” Edge said condescendingly towards Twilight.

“Wha-? I just want to meet our realms Anon before you take him away.” Twilight answered nicely.

“I don’t need your help, Sparkle.” Edge said leaning over Twilight. Her ears bent back and laid flat against her skull. Punk was about to jump back into the fight to defend Twilight, but Rainbow dash beat him to it, placing herself in between Edge and her friend.

“Back off, dickwad.” Rainbow dash said while flying above Edge’s head.

Edge scoffed at Rainbow. “Not worth my breath anyway.” He then turn his back on them, and walked out of the dining hall.

“Fucking asshole.” Rainbow snarled.

“Sorry about him.” Punk said. “He thinks he’s hot shit. They only keep him around because he’s fiercely loyal, and Founder values loyalty.”

“That almost makes me wanna denounce my element.” Rainbow joked, causing Anons within earshot to laugh a bit, causing the atmosphere to lighten up significantly.

“I’m surprised that you want to continue being within his vicinity, Twilight.” Punk said as he sat back down.

“Trust me, I’m not too thrilled about it.” Twilight laughed. “I’m just going to try and ignore him because like I said, I’m only there to meet our realms Anon before you recruit him… it’s a shame he can’t stay.” She said that last part with a hint of sadness in her voice.

“What’s up?” Rainbow dash said as she sat next to twilight.

“All these Anons came from an equestria that had somepony there that loved them.” Twilight said looking down at her hoofs. “It’s just so sad that they had to sacrifice a life with the one pony they loved just to insure the survival of that realm.”

“It wasn’t an easy decision to make.” Punk interjected. “The last thing I wanted to do was leave my realm behind.”

“Then what convinced you to leave?” Twilight asked.

“Simple. If I stayed, the realm would die.” Punk said. “When Founder told me what happened to his realm, i decided leaving was the best option. I didn’t want the lives of everypony I cared about to end in the blink of an eye just because I loved somepony to much. None of us did.”

Twilight looked down at her hoof sadly before speaking again. “I wish there was a way to prevent that from happening. You Anons deserve to live a peaceful life with the pony you love.”

Punk scoffed. “Wouldn’t call my dystopian home realm ‘peaceful.’”

“Well, you know what I mean.” Twilight said quickly.

“Yeah, yeah. I know, I know.” Punk said with a slight smile. “It’s a nice sentiment, thank you.”

“Yeah. No problem.” Twilight smiled back at Punk.

“Elements of harmony!” A voice called out. “You wanted to tag an along on our mission, so come on. We’ll be departing shortly.”

The Anon that said this looked way different than the blurry Anons scattered around the room. He wore a black three piece suit with a white dress shirt and a red tie. But for some reason his skin wasn’t blurry, it was bright green, with a black question mark right in the center of his face. He had no eyes, yet seemed to see just fine and his mouth was placed where the dot of the question mark would be. He was bald, with smoothed out facial features similar to a mannequin but with a sharp and prominent jawline. The top curve of the question mark would bend with his eyebrows so he could still convey some kind of emotion. His strange appearance caught the elements of harmony off guard, mostly because of the fact it looked like a walking green mannequin. Twilight assumed him to be a member of that green squad Founder mentioned. Kind of a no brainer.

Pinkie pie, clearly being the least freaked out about the green Anon, eagerly bounced over to the strange human, calling out to her other friends to come along with her. They eventually got up and said there goodbyes to the Anon they were speaking with and followed Pinkie as she bounced behind the green Anon. As they walked down the hall, Twilight noticed that Rarity and applejack were whispering to each other. She then began to fall back so could join in on the conversation.

“He was just an asshole, nothing more to it.” Applejack said, Twilight only catching the last half of her statement.

“Talking about Edge?” Twilight asked.

“Yes.” Rarity with a scowl at the mere mention of his name. “What even caused him to start that?”

“Punk pointing at him.” Twilight whispered.

“That’s it?” Rarity whispered back in bewilderment.

“Ohh, he was itching to start shit then.” Applejack concluded. “Not looking forward to hanging out with him more.”

“You don’t have to come along, I can do this alone.” Twilight said.

“Alone? With that bastard? Hell na Twi, we’re coming with ya.” Applejack said.

Twilight smiled at Applejack. “Thank you, that means a lot.”

“Anyways,” Rarity said, butting back into the conversation. “What did you learn about the Anons? I’m quite curious myself about these creatures.”

“Well first thing I learned is how Founder got this ship.” Twilight said. “Apparently this ship was apart of a fleet of interstellar vessels. Piloted by ponies, although they were less nice. Apparently Celestia was some kind of galactic warlord in that realm, But they did show kindness to Founder strangely.”

“How did they achieve realm travel, though?” Rarity asked.

“Well, apparently before Founder arrived in that realm,” Twilight began to explain. “When he was falling in that vast emptiness between realms, his blood somehow was infused with some kind of power. Those ponies used advanced technology to siphon the power from his bloodstream, and the hyperdrive in the back of the ship, which was used to travel through space in the blink of an eye, had been repurposed after his blood power was put into it. After some convincing, Founder was allowed to take this ship and began the journey we see him on now.”

“Very interesting.” Rarity said.

“Founder made it seem a lot easier when he described that story earlier.” Applejack said.

“He kinda did, yeah.” Twilight chuckled. “But I assume that’s because he didn’t want to go into detail, since that wasn’t really the point of the conversation.”

“True.” Applejack said.

“You know,” Rarity said, beginning a new conversation. “I’d kinda like to visit some of these alternate realms, specifically so I could visit alternate me’s.”

“Would definitely be interesting to see alternate Twilights. Trade knowledge, just talk to each other! It would be so cool!” Twilight said with increasing excitement.

“Cease the incessant yammering.” Edge snapped, killing Twilights excitement.

He stood at the exit of the ship with a crowd of green and featureless Anons, all in the same suits and ties, the only thing separating them visually was the colors of their ties.

“Shut your goddamn mouth already.” Scar snarled as he walked up from behind the ponies and towards the group of green Anons.

“Excuse me Scar.” Edge said crossing his arms. “But Founder put me in charge of this mission. Not you.”

“Excuse ME Edge, but green squad is MY squad to command. So do not overstep. Ever. Again.” Scar snarled.

“Fine.” Edge said.

“No.” Scar said angrily. “It’s not fine. it’s fucking, understood! If you can respond with understood to Founder, then you can to me too.”

Edge was about to spit another unnecessary insult at Scar, when a green Anon cleared his throat loudly.

“Sir.” The green man said. “We should get on with the briefing, shouldn’t we?”

“Yes,” Scar said as he glared at Edge. “We should.” He then pushed Edge away from him. Edge simply laughed with his hands up mockingly.

“Elements of harmony, front and center.” Scar commanded.

The ponies followed his command and trotted past him to stand among the crowd of Anons, which they could barely tell apart from one another.

“Now this mission is nothing special. It’s a simple extraction mission, pick up this realms Anon, and bring him back here safely.” He then began to pace back and forth as he spoke.
“He is scheduled to arrive in the Everfree Forest any minute now. We were going to pilot the ship over there, but since Twilight and her friends have decided to tag along she should be able to teleport all of you there.”

Twilight wore a shocked impression as this responsibility that was suddenly thrusted upon her.

“Was this information not relayed to you beforehand?” Scar asked Twilight when he noticed her expression.

“No, it wasn’t.” Twilight said.

“Awesome.” He said in an ironic and irritated tone. “Sorry this was dropped in your lap, Twilight. Are you capable of doing this? If not we can go with the original plan.” The tone of his voice suggested he was expecting the answer to be ‘no.’

“Yes, i can do it.” Twilight said with a smile. “It’s not a big deal, really. It just might take a lot of energy out of me.”

“Good.” Scar nodded. “So for those who haven’t been teleported before, it may cause Nausea if you are not ready. To avoid this, plant your feet firmly to the ground and close your eyes. Understood?”

“YES SIR!” All the green Anons exclaimed. It was also at this point that Twilight noticed the green Anons in particular have the exact same voice for some reason. Of course, this made it even more difficult to tell them apart from each other.

“Last thing you should know. The frequency of this realms Anon is, aggressive. This could mean one of two things. He is either going to arrive with some kind of power attached to him, or he’s going to have an explosive arrival. Beware of both of these possible outcomes, but do NOT kill. Is that understood?”

“YES SIR!” They responded in unison.

“Understood… Edge?” Scar said with venom in his voice as he stared daggers into the abrasive Anon, who was the only Anon that didn’t say anything with the other Anons.

“Yes. Sir.” Edge said in a disrespectful tone.

“Permission to speak freely, sir.” A green Anon with an orange tie said.

“Granted.” Scar replied.

“If his arrival is followed by an explosion, what would the radius of this blast be?” The Anon asked.

“Roughly ten feet. But that’s not an exact number, so don’t take it as gospel.” Scar answered. “Be careful out there, I pray for your safe return. Well… for most of you, I do.” He said, glaring at Edge who simply smirked in response, as if he was just granted a compliment.

“Twilight.” Scar said, immediately capturing her attention. “Send them off, and return them all safely.” He demanded.

“Well do.” Twilight said with a nod.

She then lit up horn and it began to glow brighter and brighter as she conjured up the strength to teleport everyone. She let out a small grunt as she pushed herself, her horn glowing brighter with every passing second. She lifted her head high then brought it down fast and a shimmering pop rang out, and in the blink of an eye, they were no longer on the ship and now smack dab in the middle of the Everfree forest. Twilight gasped and collapsed to the ground while clutching her head with her hoofs in an attempt to ease her newly formed headache.

“You all right Twi?” A green Anon asked, kneeling down to her level.

“Yeah, I’ll be okay. It’s just a headache.” She reassured.

“I have something to help with that.” A different green Anon said. He then reached into his suit jacket and pulled out a half empty pill bottle for headache relief.

“I think she’ll be fine.” Rainbow Dash said, standing in between her and the Anons.

The anon with the pills gave her a facial expression that could’ve been annoyance or maybe an eye roll, but with his only discernible facial feature being a question mark, it was hard to tell.

“I get the hesitance, Dash. It’s not like you’ve seen the best personalities us Anons have to offer, But trust me. Twilight should take one of these.” He insists.

“Why?” Rainbow asked.

“Because when that ship travels the realms, it causes migraines for a lot of us. These pills help with those migraines nearly instantaneously.” The Anon said trying to convince the stubborn pegasus.

Dash gives a skeptical look at the human. The Anon groaned and pulled out a pill and threw it into his mouth and swallowing. He then opened his mouth to prove he actually swallowed it.

“See? Not poison.” The Anon said matter-of-factly.

Dash reluctantly relented but was still reasonably skeptical as the Anon pull out another pill, and a small canteen of water for Twilight. Her magic was wobbly and weak, so she just let Anon put the pill in her hoof. She then popped it into her mouth, letting it rest on her tongue. she then grabbed the canteen from the humans hands and took a small swig from it. When she swallowed the pill her headache seemed to immediately dissipate, which shocked her because she thought Anon was exaggerating when he said instantaneously.

“Wow.” Twilight exclaimed. “That did worked instantly!”

“See why I offered them now?” He said more to Rainbow Dash than Twilight.

“Whatever,” Rainbow scoffed. “Let’s just find our Anon already.”

“Yeah! Enough meaningless distractions.” Edge yelled before walking into the forest, demanding the another Anons to follow him.

Rainbow dash snarled it him as he walked away, and noticed the red Japanese symbol on his back.

“What the hell does that stupid shit an his back mean?” Rainbow Dash hissed.

“Ohh you’re gonna love this.” An Anon said. “It’s a Japanese symbol that means, Demon.” He said the last part in a deep voice, likely to mockingly imitate Edges voice before laughing out loud.

“Is he serious?” Rainbow laughed.

“Oh my god, he’s dead fucking serious.” The Anon said.

“Has he always been like that?” Twilight said.

“Yep,” Anon answered. “He’s always been starting shit, and he’s always had that God complex of an ego.”

“Yeah, nobody likes him.” Another Anon said.

“Why does he act like that though?” Twilight questioned.

In response, the Anon began to act like Edge and answered as if he was him. “Because I fuckin’ hate this world, and the human worms feasting on its carcass. I always wanted to die violently, but I will not go easily. I will bring as many people to the grave with me as possible. But the coffin will not hold me forever.”

Another Anon joined in. “Love is pain. And pain is weakness leaving the body. And I don’t feel pain, not anymore.”

Both those Anons started laughing, causing the Elements of harmony to also erupt in laughter.

“No fuckin’ way that asshole says shit like that.” Rainbow laughed, wiping a tear from her eye.

“Oh yes he does.” Anon said. “Those were direct quotes.” He said laughing again.

“This guy thinks he’s so fucking cool.” Rainbow dash said mockingly.

“Yeah, like I said.” The other Anon said. “Nobody likes him. We nicknamed him ‘Edge’ as an insult, but he’s so moronic he thinks it’s named after his dumbass sword.”

“Oh god, what’s his sword name?” Rainbow said, barely holding back her laughter.

“Bloodedge.” Anon said in the same mocking tone while wiggling his fingers like a cartoon ghost, causing everyone to erupt in laughter again.

“Why does Founder put up with him?” Applejack asked. “If I were him, I woulda bucked him off the ship eons ago.”

“Well, despite his personality being as pleasant as a sandpaper handjob, he’s an extremely valuable asset.” An Anon said.

“How is he a ‘valuable asset?’” Applejack asked again.

“Because when we unfortunately have to kill people, he’s pretty much untouchable.” Anon said.

“I find that extremely hard to believe.” Rainbow Dash said.

“Believe it Dash. Punk is probably the only Anon that could match him.” Anon said.

“Oh,” Twilight muttered. “So that fight they had earlier was because Edge’s ego was bruised from a previous encounter.”

“Bingo!” Anon said with a snap and a point.

“I’d recommend staying out of his way,” the other Anon said. “It’ll do wonders for your mental health.”

“Duly noted.” Twilight said. “Now come on, let’s catch up with the rest of the crowd.”

They all began to jog up to the rest of the green Anon and Edge, but still were falling back from the crowd significantly to continue to talk to these two Anons about the other Anons. They were told what they already knew about them. They get transported to Equestria by mysterious means, fall in love with somepony or are destined to fall in love with eventually, but are then picked up by the other Anons before the realm dies. Of course there’s more nuance to each Anons story, but they all boil down to the same core details. Love indirectly destroys the realm, and the cause is unknown. The new information they acquired was exactly how the blurry faces of the Anons even occur in the first place. Apparently when they’re in a close vicinity with other Anons, their faces turn blurry and each Anon had a detailed face before the other Anons came along. The Green Anons, however, swear they’ve always looked this way. It was only when they meet the same criteria for blurry faces, did they suddenly realize they were green and bald.

The other thing that set them apart, was the fact that they were, ‘tail chasers’ as they put it. Without fail, every last green faced Anon as mated with at least one pony from their native realm, and it was literally any creature you could think of.

Cadence, Shining Armor, Trixie, Gilda, Gabby, Spike, Silverstream, Coco pommel, Thorax, Maud, Derpy, Cheerilee, Ember, Autumn blaze, Sunburst, Tempest Shadow, Lyra, Luna, Octavia, Gallus, literally anyone you could think of has had relations with one of these green Anons in another realm. It got crazier when they introduced the fact that in other realms, some stallion were mares and vice versa. They… they were perverts, plain and simple. But they’re nice people, at least the two they were talking to were. There names were Trix and Chaser, there ties being there only distinguishable feature. Trix had a light blue and light purple tie and Chaser had a dark purple tie. They might be overly flirty with them at times, but it is infinitely more tolerable to deal with when compared with Edge’s ’delightful’ personality.

“So chaser,” Rarity asked. “What’s your story?”

“Well, I got dropped into Equestria near Klugetown, when I arrived there i was basically homeless for around a day before Tempest showed up. She interrogated me for where you girls went, and when I gave her that information she put these on me.” He said as he presented two thick metal bracelets on his wrist, with a thin pole traveling down both his forearms.
“You girls should know the rest of the story from that point onwards, I just tagged along with Tempest trying to hunt you down.”

“I’m assuming you started dating Tempest after that?” Twilight said with a smile.

“Yeah we did.” Chaser said. “It was fun…” a glum demeanor began to overtake Chaser as he thought about the life he could’ve had.

“Well, how did you get your nickname?” Twilight asked, trying to lighten the mood.

Luckily her attempt at getting Chasers to lighten up worked, and he began laughing at the origin of his name. “Well, you know how we called ourselves ‘tail chasers’ earlier? They called me a ‘storm chaser’ as a joke and the name just kinda stuck.”

“Well that’s cute.” Twilight said with a smile. “What about you Trix? How’d you get your name?”

“Not sure you wanna hear that story. It’s very sexually explicit.” He said.

“I think I can handle it, I’m not a filly.” Twilight said with a bit of annoyance in her voice.

“Alright then,” Trix said with a shrug. “My full nickname is ‘GlimmerTrix’ because I had an, exciting afternoon with both Starlight Glimmer and Trixie. I walked in on those two going at it, then I joined in.”

“Oh wow, umm.” Twilight stammered, finding herself at a bit of a loss for words.

“Yeah, it’s a bit awkward to tell that story as you can see.” Trix said.

“Wait a minute.” Twilight said. “That was it? That’s your whole story? Chaser went on an adventure before coupling with Tempest, and you’re telling me all you did was have a th-threesome with Starlight and Trixie and then left the realm?”

“No.” Trix said in an offended tone. “I was in my Equestria for the entirety of my developmental years, I pretty much spent my whole teenage life there. When I grew up, Starlight got a crush on me, and Trixie just kinda third wheeled their way into bed with us. Also I didn’t just leave, okay. It was a lot harder for them to convince me because I had already spent so long in my realm. It wasn’t an easy decision to make Twilight.” Trix said, holding back a lot of anger in those last few words.

“I-I’m sorry I didn’t mean to offend you.” Twilight said quickly, trying to diffuse the situation.

“I know… I’m not mad at you. Just, mad that I had to leave.” Trix said glumly.

“How long has been since you left?” Twilight asked.

“Four years.” Trix said sadly.

“Stupid question. But If you could, would you go back to your realm?” Twilight asked.

“I sure would. We all would.” Trix said. “But there’s nothing for us green Anons to go back to.”

“W-what?” Twilight said.

“Yeah. Anons need to do something monumental in order to kill a realm… intercourse is a guaranteed realm killer.” Trix said.

“That’s… I don’t even know what to say.” Twilight said, a sympathetic tear starting to form in her eyes.

“Yeah… it fucking sucks.” Trix said.

Silence fell over the group, as they were incapable of coming up with anything that could possibly lighten the mood at this point.

They all walked through the forest for a few more minutes when suddenly, a short but violent rumble was felt throughout the forest. Birds cawed as they fleed from the tree lines and animals ran from the area. The green Anon that stood next to Edge pulled out a thin black rectangular metal device with a screen that had a lot of moving, squiggly lines on it. It was similar to a heart monitor, but they were a lot more violent in its movement. Twilight guessed this was how they were checking the soon to arrive Anons frequency.

“Ready yourselves Anons!” He yelled. “He’s going to be arriving somewhere over there!” He said as he pointed into a random direction in front of him.

Almost as soon as he pointed in that direction, a pillar of light shot up from the floor and into the sky.

“GET BACK! RUN!” That same Anon yelled.

Everyone followed those orders and they all began to sprint away from the light. But as they began to run, they were all suddenly lifted into the air as a bassy hum rank through the skulls of everyone in the forest, the rumbling reverberating through everyone’s chests as if they were at a rock concert. Rainbow dash and Fluttershy were unable to catch the air beneath their wings as they were lifted off their hoofs. Loose sticks and rocks were also lifted up, the weight of these objects didn’t seem to matter as boulders and pebbles were lifted with the same amount of ease.

The pillar of light then collapsed suddenly, slamming down with a loud bang and bringing everyone that was floating in the air straight back down to the ground with it, hard. The impact of the light hitting the ground bent the trees in the surrounding area, as if a meteor struck the area, but no crater had been formed. The only new addition to the forest floor was a human lying face down on the floor, seemingly unconscious. He wore jeans and a lightweight blue jacket, his clothes seemed to have been sun bleached from his transportation to this world. Twilight quickly ran over to the human, and for a split second she saw a non-blurry face, but it was only a glimpse before the face quickly became fuzzy like every other Anon.

“Is he okay?” Twilight said to the other Anons in a panic.

The closest green Anon ran over to the newly arrived Anon on the floor, he flipped him over and checked his pulse. Holding two fingers up to his neck, thankfully he felt a pulse. He then checked his breathing by putting a finger under the unconscious humans nose.

“Yes he’s fine, just need to wake him up.” He said as he reached into his suit jacket pocket.

He then pulled out a small cardboard bag that said ‘wake the dead’ on it. He then pulled a small white package slightly bigger than a pill out of it, and then crushed it between his fingers making a popping noise and then waved it beneath the unconscious Anons nose. Nearly instantaneously he gasped and jolted upwards, he was now wide awake.

“The fuck was that?” He said while rubbing at his nose.

“Smelling salt, we needed to wake you up.” Green Anon said.

What? Why would you- wow, what the?” The new Anon said as he noticed the green face of the human next to him.

He then looked in front of him and noticed the other green faces, and the small multicolored horses standing around him.

“Where the hell am I?” He asked, utterly confused by his new surroundings.

“You’re in a place called Equestria.” Twilight said.

“Oh, you talk. that’s uhh… different.” He said.

Twilight giggled. “My name’s Twilight Sparkle.”

“Uhh, my name's Anon and… I… I don’t know how I got here.” He said with a worried tone as he realized halfway through his sentence that he couldn’t remember the events leading up to his arrival.

”Typical side effect, happens pretty often.” The green Anon said with a shrug.

“What? What do you mean?” The new Anon said as he began to rise to his feet.

“Well that’s-“

“Not important.” Edge interrupted. “You’re coming with us for interrogation.”

“Excuse me?” The new Anon said in an offended tone of voice. “For what reason?”

The green Anon stepped in between them to try and defuse the situation. “Not interrogations, it’s more like questioning. It’s complicated, but you’ll understand eventually.”

“I’m sick of this fucking forest,” Edge spat. “and I’m tired of explaining basic information to low IQ, Imbecilic individuals.”

“The fuck?” The new Anon muttered in disgust.

“What is it? Did I use too big of words for you?” Edge said smugly.

“Wha-? Fuck you, jackass.” He said in defense.

“Yeah, thats right. Prove your weakness to me.” Edge laughed.

“Jesus Christ, what is your problem?” The new Anon said with a scowl. He then turned to the green man beside him. “Is this fuck-face with you guys?”

“Unfortunately, yes.” The green man said.

“So do I have permission to beat this guy to bloody pulp?” Anon asked.

“You will not succeed, you weak and incapable fool.” Edge said with his arms crossed.

“Okay, shut the fuck up already before I make you shut up.” He then cracked his knuckles and glared at Edge, his pupils dilated like a tiger on the hunt. The smelling salts he inhaled giving him a surge of adrenaline that he felt like he needed to release somehow.

“Hey, guys. enough Please.” Twilight said trying to defuse the situation.

“I do not need you to come to my assistance, bitch.” Every Anon expresses their dissatisfaction in some way at what Edge said, especially the ponies.

“Why do you always have to start shit?” Green Anon said.

Edge rolled his eyes, but before he could retort he was punched square in the nose by the new Anon. Edge couldn’t even react properly to being punched before more punches collided with his face. Anon then hooked Edges ankle out from under him and tripped him to the ground, his head hitting the ground hard. Anon then got on top of him and continued to pummel his face, every punch slamming his head against the dirt, essentially dribbling his head against the hard forest floor. Blood oozed from his face as Anon continued to let out his frustration and what was essentially roid rage from the smelling salts. He did eventually relent when a green hand halfheartedly attempted to push him off. Anon saw it was the green Anon, but it was evident from how he was barely trying to push against him that he didn’t really care if he continued to punch him. But he did decide to back off of Edge, but not before spitting on him.

“You’ll pay for that.” Edge scowl.

“Sure you will, you fucking loser.” Anon scowled back. “Now would someone please explain to me what the hell is going on? Who the hell are you people anyways?”

Fluttershy tugged at Anons pant leg, and when she had his attention she started to explain in a very timid voice.

“Excuse me.” She said. “But maybe I could explain to you what’s going on.” Anon bent down to her level and gestured for her to continue talking.
“Uh, well. These green m-…men? uhh, are all the same person, different versions of the same person if I understood everything correctly. They’re here to rescue you, because Anons tend to… inadvertently destroy the realm they’re in.” she explained nervously.

“Wow what?… that… that’s kinda heavy.” The new Anon said. “Cant I just go back home? How can I stop it from happening?”

“You can’t stop it.” The green Anon said. “The only way to prevent it is to join our crew, leave this realm as a selfless act to protect the ponies of this realm.”

“I-… wow. So I get transported from earth to here and I can’t even stay here or else I’ll destroy it.” The new Anon said in a defeated tone.

“Well, you’re actually one of the lucky ones.” The green Anon said, trying to lighten the mood. “You don’t have any emotional attachments to this world so it’ll be easier for you to leave.”

“yeah, lucky.” Anon said with a glum tone. “Well, if everyone else has the same name as me, id like a nickname.”

“Most Anons do,” green anon said. “We can give you a temporary nickname for now, until we can find a better one for you.”

“Okay, well what were you thinking?” The Anon said.

“We usually give the new arrivals the moniker ’Native.’”

“Hmm… yeah, I can deal with that for now.” Native said. “What’s your nickname then?”

“My nickname’s Scales.”

“Why?”

“Cause I rutted Smolder.” Scales said with a smile.

“Rutted who now?” Anon asked with a cocked eyebrow.

“It’s not that important, I’ll explain it to you later.”

Edge scoffed at their conversation while he still laid on the ground. Obviously wanting to get their attention and rile them up.

“You got something to say?” Native said, taking the bait.

“Why explain it at all? Love is a sickness, a disease. The fact you idiots continue to talk about these relationships like they still matter, even after these relationship you had with these ponies have cause worlds to burn, just further proofs to me I’m surrounded by imbeciles.” Edge said egotistically.

“Holy shit, this guy.” Native said while pointing his thumb back at him in ‘get a load of this guy’ fashion.

Edge then unsheathed his sword to showcase its red blade. It glowed a menacing red, presumably because it was enchanted in some way, and also had a black spiraling pattern that was close to the base of the blade. The hand guard had the design of a human skull on it with wide open jaw, giving off an illusion that the blade was coming out of the skull’s mouth. Bones also surround the skull to give the Hand guard a circular shape.

“This is bloodedge. She yearns for blood, and so do I. I told you, you would pay for wounding me. But today I was told not to kill you, but I was not given any restrictions on wounding you.”

He then swung the blade at Native with an upward slash, Native instinctively raised his arm to protect his face which caused his forearms to be cut wide open by the blade. He let out a cry of pain as he fell backwards to the ground. Scales, Twilight, and Fluttershy ran to his aid as blood began to gush out of the open wounds. As his blood began to ooze out, it would begin to rise up into the air and fly towards the blade of the katana. The drops of blood clattered to the blade and causing its red glow to begin glowing brighter, along with Edges red eyes. He then looked up into the sky and outstretched his arms, the wounds he gained from Natives punches began to rapidly heal. Before long, it looked like he never suffered a single scratch.

“Know your place, worm.” Edge then spat on Native.

Native pushed the green Anon and the two ponies away from him as he charged at Edge. But Native was stopped in his tracks from Edge pointing the tip of his blade inches from his face. Edge smirked as he began to step closer to Natives face, causing him to back away from the blade. But every large step Native made backwards, Edge made bigger strides forwards, with a big grin on his face.

“STOP!” Twilight yelled, as she flew up and grabbed his sword with her magic and threw it behind him. Edge watched as it arched over his head and stabbed into the forest floor.

“What is wrong with you!?” Twilight screamed as she floated close to his face. “You have been constantly rude to EVERYPONY you interacted with today. Why? What do you gain from acting like this? Not to mention you have the AUDACITY to say everypony around you should ‘know there place!’ Maybe you’re constantly miserable because you constantly mistreat everypony in your life! Maybe if you try respecting others, and treat them like equals then you- ACK!” Her lecture was cut short by Edge gripping onto her neck with a single hand, and began to choke her.

“That is e-fucking-nough!” Scales said as he pulled a gun on Edge. “Knock it the fuck off. NOW!”

Edge looked at him, then behind him and noticed the other green Anons have pulled their guns on him too. Twilights friends had fierce looks in there eyes, ready to pounce at a moment’s notice. He scoffed at the other Anons before turning to Twilight.

“I’m not going to treat these idiots that surround me like flys with any amount of respect. They are not my equals, and they aren’t worthy of my respect, only Founder is.” He then tossed her to the ground, and waited for her to be done coughing and gasping for air before continuing.
“I don’t care for your respect either, and if you attempt to overstep your worth to me like that again. I will kill you, and relish in your death, and consume your blood.”

Edge then walked away and grabbed his katana from the ground, and then cleaned the dirt from the blade before slowly sheathed it. He glared at the green faces who still had their guns drawn before pushing past them. The green Anons holstered their weapons and quickly rushed over to aid Native and Twilight. But because they all had the same voice it was rather confusing to answer all the questions the green Anons were asking. But they got through it eventually and they concluded that Twilight will be fine, she’s just may have a red mark and possibly a bruise may form.

They needed to patch Native up quickly though, they didn’t know how deep the cuts were. They tried to bandage him up the best they could with first aid and gauze, but he was bleeding quite a lot, the blood from his wounds had covered the entirety of his arms at this point. First aid kit’s wasn’t going to cut it, they needed to take him to the medical wing of the ship quickly.

They demanded Twilight to teleport them back to the ship, and she proceeded to teleport everyone back, including Edge against her better judgment. The same Anon that gave her the migraine medicine earlier tossed it back to her, along with his canteen to wash it down. He, and the other Anon’s ran down the hall towards the medical wing as fast as they could with Native being carried in their arms.

Twilight quickly choked down the medicine that was tossed towards her and rallied her friends together and ran after the green men. They eventually caught up to the Anons and they burst through a set of doors, finally arriving at the medical wing. They were about to enter the room as well but an Anon turned around and blocked the path.

“Sorry girls, I can’t let you in.” He said in a tone that conveyed to Twilight that he didn’t really want to shut them out, but unfortunately had to.

“Why? I want to make sure he’s okay.” Twilight panicked.

“He will be. Don’t worry. But because of your tiny size, you might get in the way. N-no offense.” Anon said.

“We’ll be careful, I promise!” Twilight pleaded.

“I’m sorry Twi, I can’t allow that.” He said.

“I… okay then.” Twilight said in a defeated tone and a scrunched muzzle.
“Could you at least give this back to who gave it to me.” She said as she held the canteen and pill bottle in her magic.”

“Sure thing.” He said before grabbing the items from her magical grasp.
“And hey, you can come visit him later if you want. Try coming by tomorrow. With your Anon being injured by that cocksucker, we’ll have to stay grounded for a bit until he’s fully healed.” Anon reassured.

“Sounds wonderful darling.” Rarity said. “We need some rest anyways. right,Twilight?”

“Y-yeah. You’re right.” Twilight said, trying to shake off the stress from today’s events. “We’ll come back tomorrow!” She waved to the Anon as she began to walk away.

“See ya then!” The Anon said before ducking back into the room, and disappearing from view.

“So… what now?” Rarity said awkwardly.

“I’m going to head back to Canterlot.” Twilight said with a sigh. “You girls can hangout around town while I give Celestia my report.”

“Gladly,” Rainbow dash said exasperatedly. “I need a drink after that shit.”

“Me too.” Applejack said. “I know a small bar in the back of ‘pony Joe’s’ Place. Real underground type deal.”

“Sounds relaxing.” Fluttershy said. “But I might not tag along. You girls know how I am with alcohol.”

“Oh, don’t worry Fluttershy. He’s got non-alcoholic stuff there for ya.” Applejack reassured.

“Oh, okay then.” Fluttershy said with a smile.

But before she could say anything else, Founder appeared behind them.

“Hey girls.” He said with a hint of worry in his voice. “You all okay? I heard you ran into trouble out there.”

“Yeah, that piece of shit Edge nearly killed Twilight, and our realms Anon!” Rainbow dash said with gritted teeth.

“Did he, now?” Founder said skeptically. “Cause I heard from him that your Anon attacked him first.”

Before Rainbow could blurt out another word, Twilight interrupted her.
“He did. But Edge aggravated him and pushed him to do so.” She said trying her best not to have a confrontational tone.

“I’ll deal with him…” he sighed. “I'm sorry he has caused nothing but trouble for you guys today.” Founder said sympathetically.

“Can’t you just kick him off the ship already?” Rainbow Dash said, which caused her to be elbowed in shoulder by Twilight.

“Ow, what?” She said, genuinely confused as to what she said to warrant that response.

“It’s not that easy, Rainbow.” Founder said. “I could exile him to the vast space between realms, but I can’t. I lead this pilgrimage to rescue Anon’s, I can’t exile or kill every Anon that are dicks.”

“But you have kill folks before, have ya not?” Applejack questioned.

“We have.” Founder said. “But they wished to inflict harm on us, and other ponies. They would stop at nothing until they succeeded in there malicious goals. Edge is just an ass. I can’t subjugate one of these Anons to the same fate I had to suffer just because they’re a dick.”

“Well are you going to punish him in anyway?” Twilight said. “he did choke me after all.”

“He choked you?” Founder said in a bewildered tone.

All of Twilight’s friends nodded, corroborated her story. Which caused Founder to sigh in annoyance and disappointment.

“I’ll deal with him…” Founder said with a scowl.

“Thank you.” Twilight said as she rubbed her neck, still feeling phantom pain from the encounter.

“So are you heading off the ship, or staying a bit longer?” Founder asked.

“No, we were gonna leave.” Twilight answered. “But we’ll be back tomorrow, I never got to actually talk to our Anon before everything went down.”

“Then we will be happily expecting your return.” Founder said with a genuine smile.

Founder continued to walk with the ponies until they got to the exit of the ship and opened the door so the ponies could leave. He then took his glove off and placed it on a black square on the wall. It then glowed a bright green light around the outline of his hand, and then spoke to him.

“hello Anon. What is your command?” a robotic female voice said.

“Allow ship access to this realm’s elements of harmony.” Founder said.

“Okay… blood sample needed.” The voice said.

“Wha- wait.” Twilight sputtered. “Why does the wall need our blood?”

“So you can board this ship freely whenever you wish.” Founder explained. “I just need one of you ponies to offer up a sample, the computer will to the rest.”

Twilight began to step forward but was stopped by Applejack. “Not so fast, sugarcube. You’ve been through enough today. Allow me.” She then stepped forward towards Founder and extended her hoof out to him.

“Thanks AJ.” Twilight said.

“Don’t mention it.” Applejack said.

Founder then pulled a small cylindrical device with a needle at the end from a small cubbyhole in the wall. He then gently pushed the needle under Applejacks skin. She stood stoically as her blood was drawn, and once he was finished drawing blood from the farm pony he placed the needle back into the wall. The wall then ejected a small band-Aid like a recite at a grocery store, which Founder grabbed and placed on the small wound he had made on Applejacks forearm. He then tapped the screen a few times before it spoke once more.

“… blood sample confirmed. Welcome Elements of harmony of realm C-101010. Level 1 permissions granted-
light ramp access, granted.
Boarding access, granted.
Food and water access, granted…
armory access, denied.
Core room access, denied.
East wing access, denied.

The door to the ship then finally opened.

“See you girls soon.” Founder said with a smile.

The ponies said there goodbyes and then made their way off the ship, the light bridge now responding to there hoofs and allowing them walk across it like how the Anons did earlier. Twilight had a slight grimace on her face as they walked down the ramp. Nobody else noticed it, but Fluttershy saw Twilight’s face first.

“What’s going on?” Fluttershy said, breaking Twilight from her train her thought.

“Ehh. It’s probably nothing, but that’s the second time I heard something about the east wing.” Twilight said in a bit of hushed tone.

“I heard about that East wing too.” Rarity said. “The Anon I spoke to mentioned something being kept in the East wing. They said it was, horrific.”

“Well apparently they’re not supposed to talk about it,” Twilight said. “because the Anon who told me were shushed by punk.”

“Something about this business don’t sit right with me.” Applejack grumbled.

“Yeah,” Rainbow dash said. “They’re hiding something.”

“Why are we assuming it’s something we have to worry about?” Pinkie pie interjected. “Maybe they’re keeping it from us because we wouldn’t like to see it.”

“Or it’s because it’s something so bad, they know we would take issue with it.” Rainbow said.

“Maybe.” Pinkie said with a shrug. “What do you think Twilight?”

“I-… I don’t know. Whatever it might be, we shouldn’t go around trying to figure out what it is. It’ll probably just lead to more trouble than it’s worth.”

“You’re telling me you don’t want to know what’s back there?” Rainbow dash said as she crossed her hoofs.

“Oh no, I SO want to know what’s back there.” Twilight said with a small chuckle. “But again, we’re guests. We shouldn’t snoop around there home, especially since we have no real reason to believe they’re hiding something malicious.”

“Hmm… ahh, I guess you’re right.” Rainbow said begrudgingly.

“Thank you,” Twilight said confidently. “Now, let’s head back to Canterlot already. I’ll probably meet up with you girls at the bar later on when I’m done with my report.”

“We’ll save a seat for ya then, sugarcube.” Applejack said tipping her hat towards her.

They walk past the Canterlot guards that were still outside the ship, they had begun setting up camps around the ship. Tents were being pitched and materials to start multiple camp fires were being piled up. The girls began to make there way up the hill where they left Celestia at, and once they got to the top they were greeted by her warm smile.

“Thank goodness, you’re back. I was beginning to worry.” Celestia said with a relieved sigh.

“Yes, we’re fine princess.” Twilight said with a bow.

“So, what have you learned about our visitors?” Celestia asked.

“Quit a bit. We’ve got a lot to discuss.” Twilight said.

“What happened to your neck, dear?” Celestia asked.

Twilight rubbed her neck before responding. “Like I said, we’ve got a lot to discuss.”

“Well, let’s not waste anymore time then.” Celestia said before teleporting herself and the other six ponies back to Canterlot.