Suggsverse vs Logic
Chapter 6
Previous Chapter"So, what else should we cover?" Pinkie Pie asked as they approached the end of the road of light. Before them stood a building of grey stone and marble. Unicron dwarfed it, but to the ponies it was large.
"Well, there's this guy from the wiki," Sunset Shimmer said as she read the page on her computer. "His name is Callimachus Pride. It says that he encountered someone named 'Miss Bunny' as she was devouring infinite omniverse after infinite omniverse. They'd had a child together, and he wanted to 'change the script', only Miss Bunny didn't want to…"
"Sounds like a couple fighting over an abor…" Unicron said
"No!" Pinkie Pie yelled. "We're not going there! I don't care if it's canon to the Suggsverse, we're not going there!"
"Well, powers and abilities are all prominent entries in the character pages here," Sunset Shimmer continued. "More prominent than actual story elements in most cases. His powers state that 'As a Finalé, Callimachus Pride can literally do anything she supremely well please…"
"Ignoring the poor writing, if that were true then he wouldn't have failed to get his girlfriend to have…"
"I said no!" Pinkie Pie yelled once more as she threw her seven-layer cake at Unicron's head. The cake collided with the robot god's skull and slid down. Unicron only grumbled angrily as he finally came to stand before the Art Gallery. Before the doors of the building stood six humans with technicolor skin tones. Behind them stood Galactus, now glowing with a bright golden hue. Zephyranth stood just before the humans, talking casually with them in a much more rational manner than her daughters had.
"What's going on, girls?" Sunset Shimmer said as Unicron carried the ponies to the ground once more. "Did Galactus get a new outfit after eating the Voyager's home, or something?"
"Actually, Marvel did this to me," Galactus said, happily. "Thanks to the Ultimates, I am the Lifegiver, now. I use my vast energies to give life to dead planets."
"Zephyranth was just explaining to us about how the author got all of his ideas," Rarity said. "I admire his desire to create, but he hasn't really done much beyond constant inflation of power and scope."
"Yeah, we've been discussing this a bit, ourselves," Sunset said. "A lot of his powers involve long-winded descriptions."
"Read one!" the Pinkie Pies said as they jumped up and down.
"Why don't you read about me?" Zephyranth said as she pulled a book from one of her own bags. She opened it to the bookmarked page while handing it to Sunset Shimmer.
"Are you sure?" Sunset said as she accepted the book.
"Yes. I think the passage that was marked will provide some insight."
"Alright," Sunset said. She opened the book as her friends gathered round, and she began to read. "Zephyranth is completely outside (yet fully all-encompassing) Possibility, Totality, and Nothingness within all of fiction, all of nonfiction, all of transfiction, all of hyperfiction, all of subfiction, all of fanfiction, all of metafiction, all of patafiction, all of interfiction, all of personal fiction, and all of impersonal fiction of (and from) every Story/Plot/Verse/Author. Zephyranth is a Voyager."
"Wow," Rainbow Dash said as she rubbed her temples. "I think I need some apple cider."
"Granny almost caught me last time you wanted apple cider," Applejack said. "Still, it might be worth the risk after that."
"It's like he's arguing for his control over every work of fiction ever written," Rarity said, disdainfully. "They're all within his omniverse, yet he has infinite omniverses. With so much quantity, he's missed out on the quality."
"I wonder," Zephyranth said. "Does it sound familiar?"
"I… I don't know," Sunset said slowly. "What do you think, Unicron?"
Sunset turned to face the Transformer God only to see his scowling face staring hard at Galactus.
"Is there something wrong?" Galactus asked Unicron. His new, golden form shimmered with the lifegiving energy that flowed through his body, contrasting strangely with the evil aura of the robot god.
"I respected you," Unicron said, accusingly. "You were a cosmic balancing act. We both ate planets and got stronger from it. We had something in common!"
"I don't understand," Galactus said. "What are you getting at, Transformer?"
"I respected you," Unicron repeated, his voice growing colder and more violent with each syllable. "Now I hear more drivel from this 'Suggsverse'…"
"Don't be mean!" the Pinkies yelled from the ground.
"I hear more drivel," Unicron said, emphasizing the insult to spite the pony and human. "And it sounds like Marvel's description of their Omniverse. Oh, I'll admit that this one is quite different in context and wording. It describes the supposed nature of this 'Voyager' woman. But it is long-winded, unnecessarily complex, and it only serves to inflate the power and scale of a universe that should be built on story! It encompasses everything and everyone that could possibly exist, even those intellectual works from others, and claims to put them under a single author and under the control of a single character!"
"I still don't see what you are getting at," Galactus said defensively. He lowered his head, his gaze never leaving Unicron's face, as he put his hands behind his back.
"I respected you!" Unicron said more loudly than before. "Now I learn that this 'Suggsverse' received its insane power inflation ideas from Marvel!"
"Are you saying that the Marvel Omniverse theory is incorrect?"
"An infinite multiverse accomplishes the same goals in scope without the arrogance."
"What makes you think arrogance drives us? Marvel and DC have a long running, friendly rivalry. We have a lot of respect for one another. Their Omniversal theory is the same as ours."
"So you created a means for your franchises to be close to one another?" Sunset said. "That's sweet, but why include everyone else's work? Why not just say that the infinite dimensions and multiverses that make up your separate fictions are close, but never touching? That would take care of legal matters without including all of the things you guys have no rights to. Besides, the definition of an Omniverse changes from source to source, while the definition of a Multiverse is generally agreed upon."
"We, uh, did it for fun?" Galactus said as he searched for an answer. "Regardless of our reasons, our mythos is grand in scale and always has been. An 'infinite multiverse' can't possibly contain it."
"Infinity: the quality of having no limits or end," the human Pinkie Pie said as she read from a dictionary she had pulled from her hair. "The quality of being infinite. A space, amount, or period of time that has no limits or end. A very great number or amount. The full definition of Infinity also includes the word 'boundless' as a description."
"Unless you're trying to make a case for 'Omni-infinity', I think your argument doesn't have a leg to stand on," Sunset Shimmer said as she looked at the great, golden god disapprovingly. "And if you're trying to make a case for 'Omni-infinity', then you'd be just as guilty of using redundant, made-up words for pointless power inflation as the Suggsverse is."
"H.P. Lovecraft did it first, you know," Galactus said defensively.
"H.P. Lovecraft did it to write an imaginative backdrop in which interesting stories could be written!" Unicron roared. "He didn't do it so he could claim false domain over his rivals! Nor did he do it for the sake of comic company bromance!"
"I am done discussing this with you," Galactus said as he turned away from Unicron.
"Oh, but I'm not done with you," Unicron said as he grabbed Galactus by the throat.
"Release me!" Galactus yelled as he struggled in vain against the robot god. "I am Galactus, Bringer of Life! My duty is vital to the Multiverse!"
"That's the other thing," Unicron rumbled. "You're a Lifegiver, now. You are not the Deathbringer you once were. Combine this 'change' with Marvel's abhorrent sins of power inflation, and I have lost all respect for you."
"Release me!" Galactus yelled again as his blasts of cosmic energy washed over Unicron. "Where are you taking me?"
"I'm going to eat you!" Unicron yelled as he shrugged off the Lifegiver's attacks. "Then I'm going to go home, punch Primus in the face, and sleep for a thousand years!"
The group that stood before the Art Gallery watched as Unicron dragged Galactus away. Their angry shouts carried through the Suggsverse as they made their way down the path of light.
"Uh…" Sunset Shimmer said, in confusion.
"Awkward," the Pinkie Pies said in unison.
"Wait, how did those two get here in the first place?"
"Oh, I don't know," said the soft, cunning voice of Discord as he appeared out of thin air. "They must have just decided to come here themselves."
"Yeah, I don't think so," said the pony Pinkie Pie. "You're pretty bad at feigning innocence, Discord."
"It doesn't matter," Sunset said. "I think we'd all just like to go home at this point."
"Done," Discord said as he snapped his claws. Two portals appeared on the path behind him. The Canterlot High girls said their goodbyes as they went through the left hand portal to their school. The Voyager turned and walked into the Art Gallery as the pony Pinkie Pie waved goodbye.
"Are you coming?" Pinkie Pie asked as she stood at the edge of the portal back to Ponyville.
"Hmmm," Discord said as he watched Unicron and Galactus continue down the pathway. "I think I'll go say goodbye to my new… uh, friends, first."
"You're going to watch Unicron eat Galactus, aren't you?"
"Would you like to come with?"
"No, that's ok," Pinkie Pie said, uneasily. "Just, uh, promise me you won't look too closely, or take away any ideas."
"I promise not to try and eat Equestria when I get back," Discord said as a bag of popcorn appeared in his claws. "Now, run along home. I'll follow after you shortly."
The two parted ways as Galactus' screams continued to ring throughout the Suggsverse.