“Everybody tells me that it's old and fake mythology, It's a mystery, anthropology!”
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We camped for lunch at the Pound and Carrot Cake Shop across the street. Robinfire didn’t want to eat anything maybe because she’s a ghoul. Then again when ghouls went zombie they ate meat and Ditzy ate cupcakes. I was feeling the low of my emotional roller coaster. Shit, it is like a damn high.

The sugary smell and taste in the air made me nauseous for obvious reasons. Prophet Bless chowed down cake like there was no tomorrow.

“How can you eat all that?” I asked as I pulled off the tab of a can of poppy seeds popping the top off. I stuck my muzzle in the opening and started licking up the tiny black seeds.

“My kind consume a tone of calories,” Prophet Bless boasted pounding his chest.

Robinfire gave Prophet Bless a nervous look. She had been giving him many nervous looks and I was starting to think there was more going on between them. I was sure they’d work out whatever it was. I sighed licked the seeds off my lips and got back to eating out my can.

“Littlepip!” I heard Mr. Black’s voice from the street outside. I saw a Spritebot fly by the window.

I got up and opened the window. The Spritebot pushes the door and came in. Both Prophet Bless and Robinfire aim their guns at the thing.

“Friend! Friend!” I shouted.

They gave me looks as if I was a sick pony.

“Hacker friend,” I explained.

They lower their guns,

“I’ll keep those at the ready of I was you,” I added, “Pinkie may hack back.”

Robinfire smiles, “Nothing worry I’m about.”

“Lucky, I caught you when I did,” Mr. Black tells me, “Mira got a straight line commune-K with Celestia. We can have her talk directly to you.”

“Awesome when can we speak,” I smiled.

“She needs a few minutes,” Mr. Black answers, “Meantime your friends are concerned and they are coming right up to see you. They are going to pick up Homage and Life Bloom at some place called Ten Pony Tower first. It should take them a few days by sky wagon.”

I blushed, “They really don’t need to trouble themselves that much. It's not like they can do anything can they?”

“You’re saying this floating ball of metal can talk to Celestia?” Prophet Bless says dismissively, “She died a long time ago.”

Robinfire taps on Prophet Bless’s shoulder, “No have time meaning.”

“Yeah, your right,” Prophet Bless agrees.

I was confused,

There was barking over the Spritebot.

“Oh, Celestia is ready,” Mr. Black told us.

After a moment Celestria’s sweet voice came over the Spritebot, “It’s good to see your alive and well Littlepip.”

“Its good to hear your voice my goddess,” I cheered back.

“See can us she!” Robinfire hides her bloody bandages with her hoof.

“So, you’re the other goddess,” Prophet Bless rises an eye brow, “Why have you abandon your sister?”

“She was dead, and I didn’t know about this place,” Celestia sighs, “I should have known, there were plenty of clues, Oh Scootaloo, why?”

“What should you have known?” I asked, “The way Mr. Black spoke you know what Silent Ponyville is.”

“Truth be told this is the second place to be called Silent Ponyville,” Celestia answers, “I guess she liked the name.”

“Ponyville was a happy place for her after all,” I said reminiscently.

“But you can come? you can save us?” Prophet Bless adds in, “At least bring back God?”

“God?” Celestia said shocked, “Oh, dear, oh dear, oh dear. Littlepip suckle my tits and call me mommy. Oh dear.”

“What!” I shouted blushing.

“Sorry, I guess I’m picking up your bad habits,” Celestia replied

I never seen Celestia unnerved.

“Goddess you are making me nervous and I don’t feel like we have much time for you to have a panic attack.”

“Ah yes, sorry,” I could feel Celestia blushing over the Spritebot, “It’s hard to explain, “What you call God, I call Bible, it has no will of it’s own unless you give it one. Has no form unless you give it one. That form could be anything. For me and my sister, It took the form of our mother and once seen it made us immortal.”

“I and many others have seen it and are immortal because of it.” Prophet Bless points out.

“You’re immortal?” I said in shock.

“It’s not a big deal,” Prophet Bless shakes his head.

“Okay how?” I asked in disbelief.

“Ponies get close to the Bible when dreaming," Celestia tells me, "Closer once dead. It can make a dream with in a dream.”

My heart drops, “I-I’m dead?”

“No, your body has no soul-” Celestia explains but was cut off.

The Spritebot cracks and another voice came up. “Again with the hacks?”

I smash the thing before it could play anymore music. My companions gives me a look of what should we do next.

I sigh, “Let’s see if there are anything useful for supplies we can take before we go.”

Exploring I open the pantry door. A hoard of flies came flying out at me. I could feel them landing and biting on me. I scream in horror, closing my eyes. Prophet Bless and Robinfire run over to my direction.

“Is something attacking you?” Prophet Bless asks gun at the ready.

I opened my eyes to see the flies gone. Inside the pantry was the mummified body of a foal with the chest ripped open. If I didn’t know better something came out. On the back of the door written in blood. “Hail my god, the Lord of the Flies.” I think there was an war time book called that about young colts on a sky wagon shot down by Zebras and crashing on an island.

I noticed the cake shop suddenly smelt rotten. Going back out front to my disgust all the cakes had maggots growing on them. My stomach turned. I felt like throwing up when Prophet Bless started eating one of the cakes.

“I know you don’t feel like eating cake but do you have to look at me like that?” Prophet Bless asks.

“You don’t see them?” I shook my head, “Never mind, have fun eating bugs, Just this city playing tricks on me.”

Prophet Bless gives an unhappy look at his cake. I walked up to the second floor. The upper part appeared to be living quarters. I found another pair of dead ponies in the bed room. At frist I thought they were a couple. Examining the room I realized they were the brother and sister cake. I found a paper C with a note saying “C for Cake”

The earth shakes from an explosion. I run down stairs to see smoke bellowing down the street.

“What happened?” I yelled.

Robinfire replied with a look of confusion.

“I think something is attacking the police station,” Prophet Bless shouts, “At least what’s left of it.”

“Shit,” I grabbed a rifle and run for the roof exit up stairs.

Prophet Bless turns to Robinfire, “Guard the door!”

I could hear his hoof clops fallowing me.

The roof door was locked. Magic and click. I creek the door open. I saw the smoke rising, I’ll have to step out to get a better look. Noting the color of the roof I strip off my barding.

“What are you doing?” Prophet Bless asks giving me a funny look.

“My fur matches the color of the roof,” I explain, “Better then black barding.”

Prophet Bless looks at me then the roof pavement then back at me.

“Okay, it kind of matches,” I conceded.

“I’m coming too, I blend as well as you.” Prophet Bless began to take off his barding too.

We cautiously step out into the open. I could see Dashit flying over head now. I knew it had to be him.

“We need to get him on the ground,” Prophet Bless whispers.

“I know, and I have it covered,” I whisper back.

“Good,” Prophet Bless takes the rifle. “You spot I’ll shoot.”

I spot a very expensive looking wagon down the street. I rocked it with my magic. The thing starts blaring noise. Dashit flies in to investigate.

Prophet Bless looks through the sights with one eye, I’d imagine his SATS acting like a scope. “I have him in my sights.”

“Three blocks,” I glance the smoking building, “And zero wind.”

I slip into SATS to get a better look. Dishit looks up and smiles at us. Shit! Don’t tell me his enemy detection is working!

Prophet Bless fires, Dashit fires, The missiles hit the side of the building as the bullet hits Dashit’s head. I feel the ground below me give way.

“Run!” I shouted as the front half of the cake building slid away. Prophet Bless grabs me and we took to the air.

I watched the roof exit slip away. Fuck there goes our barding. I look back at the police station now a full smoking rubble. Double fuck, can’t get anymore.

Prophet Bless noticed the look on my face. “Don’t worry Robinfire could be okay.”

Shit, Littlepip you forgot about her!

We land on top of the rubble.

“Robinfire!” I shout, then I turned to Prophet Bless, “Believe it or not this is the second time I lost her in a building collapse today.”

“Oh, when I was fighting in the war I had three buildings fall on me in one day.” Prophet Bless kicks the ground. “I found our barding, and it’s pretty mangled.”

“Take them, I'll see if I can make one good barding out of that,” I replied moving a load of rubble with my magic.

“Help!” I heard a cry. I move more rubble. Robinfire pulls herself out.

I was about to smile and give her a hug when we all heard the click. We freeze in place. Dashit had his battle saddles aimed at us.

“Yeah, I’m walking away from this one,” Prophet Bless turns, “Come Robinfire,” and starts walking down the street.”

“No,” Robinfire snaps.

“Yeah, thanks for the loyalty guy,” I glared at the buck.

“You should be talking murder,” Dashit snaps.

“Okay what?” I reacted.

“What you did to me?” Dashit taps the bleeding part of his helmet, “Will be only the beginning.”

I see him put lips on the bridle trigger. My horn glows and I shut my eyes.

Ka-Boom!

I open my eyes, Dashit was screaming blinded by the flash grenade. Prophet Bless and Robinfire were blinded as well. I charge in and pushed my shotgun into Dashit’s neck.

It took two shots to sever the head. The head fell to the ground and kept moving as if it was gasping for air. I freaked out with a scream and fired into the head until it was a bloody mess.

Dashit’s body stretched out its wings and flies away into the sky.

“Hide…cover…fast?” Robonfire suggests.

I look up the map. “Well, the closest large building is the Humanity Museum. We might even camp there for the night.”

“Mason? Cherry?” Robinfire asks.

“Well we always have DJ Pon3,” I answered, “I wanted to see what shape we are in once we reach the Humanity Museum before using that card.”

As we walked to the museum we fought monsters along the way. We used melee weapons to save ammo. Having to fight and kill two or three creatures every block as we walked was taking it toll.

There were still Puckbucks and Vaggies and we killed a Babybucker hiding under a car.

We found a near by sewing shop to work on fixing our barding. I took the chance to talk to Prophet Bless.

“So, what happen back there?” I snapped at the pony.

“What?” Prophet Bless answer’s innocently.

“Tossing me to the dogs,” I growled.

Prophet Bless suddenly punched me in the face. I lose my balance and fall to the ground. The police buck puts his hoof on my shoulder pinning me down.

I had to admit, he was stronger then he looked. I glared back at him with my bloody lip. I wanted to strike him back but couldn’t.

“Prophet stop!” Robinfire cries.

Prophet Bless gently lifts his hoof off me and backs off a foot. “Just, cutting to the chase sweetie, I’m a survivor, I have been in war and I know what death feels. We can’t have grudges out here. You’re not going to trust me fine. We still need to work together. We keep each other alive because it helps each other out in the long run. I will not die needlessly.”

I licked the blood off my lip, “And this?”

“You have anger issues and a gun,” Prophet Bless snapped, “Best to defuse you as quickly as possible.”

We left the sewing shop and I spent the next two blocks in quiet shame. Finding myself thinking about what I did to Sioux Falls.

I heard the cries and wine of babies. I motioned for us to stop. Looking up we could see floating fish above us.

They seemed to be some kind of giant ugly brown Catfish things that could swallow a pony whole. We notice they seemed to be nibbling at building walls.

A giant green grub falls off the side of the building next to us splattering at our feet. Prophet Bless screamed and gave the thing a horrific look. I guess the buck doesn’t like bugs. This made me smile.

“Do run we?” Robinfire asks.

I look at Prophet Bless. He seemed to me shivering standing over the dead maggot.

“We can’t stay here,” I told Robinfire, I motion to the buck with my head, “I think Prophet Bless is struck with PTS.”

One of the Catfish things noticed us and was floating down to street level.

“Prophet, Pleas, snap out of it!” I shook the pony.

“My brothers my sisters, they ate them all those bastards ate them all,” He mumbles to himself.

I slapped the pony as hard as I could with my hoof. It felt good considering the slug he gave me. Prophet Bless snapped out of it enough to reach into his saddle bag. He pulls out an inhaler. Wait Dash! The buck takes a hit from the inhaler. He suddenly gets to his feet.

By now a Catfish was staring at Robinfire face to face. She held back her melee weapon. When she stepped to the side the Catfish fallowed. Robinfire turns to run. The Catfish circles around her and stares back into her eyes. Suddenly it opens its mouth with a low growl revealing needle like teeth.

Prophet Bless rushes in and stabs the Catfish with a combat knife. The creature screech in pain. All the other Catfish stopped what they were doing and turn to look at us.

“Run now!” Robinfire shouts.

The school of giant fish dive for us. We ran down the street. Unfortunately for us we ran into a pile of crashed Mini Mac’s. The Catfish still chased us as we jumped ducked and weaved through the pile of vehicles.

On the other side was the Humanity Museum. There was a metal gate around it all we had to do was jump it.

Robinfire gets her chest stitches caught on one of the decorative spikes. It popped a few loops ripping her flesh and leaving her to hang there.

I tried to cut the fishing wire with my knife. The knife does nothing to it. Prophet Bless grabs the fishing wire with his mouth and pulls. The decorative metal snaps and Robinfire hits the ground with a thud.

We reached the main doors. I pushed against them, but they didn’t open. Chains were wrapped around the handles. No problem just use my magic and- fuck combination lock.

“Memo!” Robinfire shouts.

“Read it!” I shouted back.

“Anymore read can’t,” Robinfire replied.

Prophet Bless fires his gun at the door’s glass. They made holes but the glass didn’t break.

“That’s against the laws of physics,” He snapped.

Catfish were coming down upon us.

“Don’t move!” Robinfire shouts.

We all froze and the Catfish stopped.

“Okay, what’s going on?” I whispered to Robinfire slowly backing away from one of the monster fish.

“Catfish, bottom feeders, eyes, not good, sudden movements, No,” Robinfire told me.

“Okay,” I replied understanding.

Just then, Prophet Bless hopped up on Dash, screams as loud as he could and ran down a side path.

“Well, he’s dead,” Robinfire remarks with a smile.

I gave her a glare, Granted he was charming, also kind of an ass. He has helped me. Even if he could drop me at a hat.

“Don’t, help him, Please!” Robinfire told me.

I took a moment to think. This wasn’t right and I was about to run after Prophet Bless when Robinfire grabs me.

“You have, no clue,” Tears rolls down her cheeks.

I sighed and looked at the memo,
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The answer to the lock is her favorite riddle.
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I put the piece of paper down and looked up at the large doorway. Above there was a plaque with a statue of a sphinx. The words on it, “What has four legs in the morning, two in the afternoon, Three in the evening?”

Man, I absentmindly answered in my head. Wait a minute.

I twist the lock to the numbers 423, It clicks open.

The inside was dark, Our equestrian night vision kicks in. I found a map near the gift shop. I had to shine my Piplight on it. We ponies maybe able to see in the dark but reading is another matter.

I heard a tingle of music, I turn to see Robinfire playing with a Music box that looked like the one she had in her bag but this one had a figure of a human ballerina in it. I could tell she was crying so I gave her a moment.

“Okay,” I announced looking at the map, “It seems-“

“Ooo!” I was interrupted by a loud animal noise.

“That’s not good,” I remarked and continued on, “There is a generator down stairs next to the maintenance room.”

“Guard stay I’ll the here door and,” Robinfire told me.

“Good plan,” I replied, “Shoot your gun if you need help.”

I went down stairs through the back office doorway. Shit, I can hear breathing, there is something down here. I got my SATS ready anticipating sudden combat.

I seen a figure moving on the ceiling covered by the shadows. It wasn’t the direction I was going so I ignored it.

“Ouch!”

I shined my Piplight on some barbwire on the floor. Then I heard a light groan. Moving the light up I found a body crucified to the wall wrapped from head to toe with barbwire. Wait, this was a monster, A Ragdoll pony.

I took out a knife. I debated about slitting the things throat. My knife went in. Whatever this thing was I couldn’t let it suffer.

The generator ran off a talisman that had to be jump started with unicorn magic. All the lights in the building went on.

I heard a loud shreik and a large blur rushed past the doorway. This made me jump. As my heart recovered I saw a slower smaller creature run past making a whaling sound. The thing was covered in long stringy hair. It ran up right and had long claws.

Then I heard gunfire. I rush forward tripping and falling. My hind hoof got tangled in a loop of barbwire. I removed the wire from my cut and bleeding ankle.

There was nothing in the hallway. When I got up stairs I saw Prophet Bless and Robinfire grappling with each other.

“Lying bastard!” Robinfire shouts pushing Prophet Bless back with the body of her gun.

“Oh, don’t hold grudges dear,” Prophet Bless rams his head into Robinfire.

“It was you!” Robinfire screams in tears. “Whole time! You tortured me! It was you!”

I pulled the two apart by picking them up into the air with my telekinetic magic.

“How did you escape the fish?” I asked the buck.

“Side door, It led to some old costume shop or something,” Prophet Bless answers then smiles. “Your are into mares right?” He remarks spinning upside down.

“Yeah,” I snapped.

“You must make her happy with your degree of magical manipulation,” The buck adds.

I blushed and drop him on his face. Then Robinfire, not on her face.

“Okay, Just what’s going on between you two?”

“Dash!” Robinfire shouts pointing at Prophet Bless, “Investigate me! Really him!”

“I Didn’t started using Dash until after the world ended,” Prophet Bless replied.

“Liar, Rumors,” Robinfire snaps.

Prophet Bless gives a predatory smile, “You want to hear about rumors. When you shot that perp-“

“Change-“ Robinfire started to interrupt when she was interrupted by the PA playing music.

“Welcome everyone to the glorious Humanity Museum. Where you can learn about humans and there wonderful connection to Equestria's history. Soon to be the new birth place of god.”

“This place is complete bunk,” Prophet Bless remarks in my ear.

I give him a glare, “Okay, on probation.”

The music cuts off, “Robinfire, Littlepip, Wasn’t she purple?”

“Wha?” Prophet Bless gave a shocked confused look.

“You come and witness to the god of the new world.”

The doors open up.

“Minty Love?” Robinfire notes.

“Well, she seemed happy last time I seen her with all the evil maniacal laughing,” I remarked, “We should see what she wants.”

We walked through the doorway.

“So, how did you open the lock?” Prophet Bless asks me.

“It was the sphinx’s riddle,” I answered, “The combination was the numbers stated in the riddle.”

“I love the story of the sphinx,” Prophet Bless smirks,

“Why?” I quarried

“The predator wins,” Prophet Bless tells me, “The answer “Man” is wrong. He was looking for “Human” and removes the traveler’s eyes as punishment.”

“That’s cruel,” I snapped.

In front of us there were three nude statues of humans. From the genitalia, I’d say female. Insert lesbian joke if you must. It’s not like these human things had tails to cover their privates. Not that walking with your tail up between your legs like that wouldn’t look funny.

The middle statues seemed to be of an earth human. The one to the left was a pegasus human. The right was a unicorn human. On the bottom was a plaque,

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These three are the human types that represent the three main types of ponies. The terran in the middle, To the left is what is called an angel. The is the majestic ogre a horned human.
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We walked down a walkway. It had mermaids, elves, and dwarves on display. Strange creaking sounds came from above us. When we looked up we could see blurs of things ducking in the rafters.

Well I was looking at a display of the evolution of humanity, an arm grabbed me. I was tossed across the room and into the hands of a Halfling.

Prophet Bless puts two bullets in the hairy ape. It falls to the floor bleeding. Prophet Bless runs up and smashed the thing’s head with his hoof. A large chunk of hair jumps off the ape revealing a smaller ape. It claws into Prophet Bless’s side. I disabled the small creature with a long Y shaped staff pinning it down. Prophet Bless smashes it’s head.

Robinfire shoots up in the rafters causing the ape creatures to back off.

“Should hold them,” Robinfire remarks.

“Hopefully,” I added.

I turned to Prophet Bless who was covering his wound with his wing.

“How bad is it?” I turn my head to look under his wing.

“Just give me a fucking healing potion,” He snaps backing away from me.

“I see your going through with drawl,” I snarked passing the buck a vile.

“Hey, I need it, It makes things clear when I get cloudy,” Prophet Bless answers drinking the potion.

“I know you think you need it,” I told him, “But the clarity is just an illusion.”

“Sounds like you been a bad girl once,” Prophet Bless flirts.

I blush, “Still a bad girl.” I giggled. Don’t flirt with him you douche.

A thud at the window draws our attention. The Catfish were circling around the building. Getting out of this place isn’t going to be easy.

“Sorry, If I knew I would have led them away,” Prophet Bless told me.

It made my heart sink to think I left him running by himself with those monsters chasing him. Prophet Bless steps forward taking lead.

Robinfire puts her hoof on my shoulder, “Littlepip no.”

“But-“ I started to say.

“Littlepip no!” Robinfire cries with tears. I felt like the middle child in a dysfunctional family.

Robinfire glances at the small ape. I looked and noticed olive colored goo on the claw. Worried, I trotted up to Prophet Bless.

“Are you sure you are feeling okay?” I asked.

“What’s the matter Littlepip?” Prophet Bless smirks.

“I saw something on that ape that cut you,” I told him.

Prophet Bless freezes,

“Sure you’re not poisoned or something?” I asked him.

“Oh,” Prophet Bless looks at his pipbuck, “I’m fine, But yeah we should take healing potions every time we are scratched by those things.”

“So, what’s all this stuff about Dash?” I asked, “It sounds like there was an epidemic.”

“Look things are bad, who are you to judge,” Prophet Bless snaps.

“Don’t tell me there’s not rehab,” I told him, “You have Alpha and Omega from what I heard. My world is just as bad as this place there has to be some pony you can go to.”

Blam!

Robinfire shoots at more apes. This didn’t make them retreat this time. We ran for the artifacts room. In front of me were robotic displays of human’s holding musical instruments. I quickly found a big red button and pushed it. A woman starts playing a lyre. Pushed more buttons drum, guitar, and keyboard starts playing. The apes turn and run away.

We reached a place called The Bon-Bon Eatery. A ragdoll pony slides out from behind the counter. It died quickly.

I noticed Robinfire giving me glares.

“What’s with the evil eye?” I asked her.

“Having, fun with, your boyfriend?” Robinfire snaps.

“It’s not like that,” I yelled blushing.

“Yeah right,” Robinfire rolls her eyes.

“It’s just he reminds me of someone,” I got starry eyed as I think of Homage. Then I thought of the pain I caused her and that look went away, “Someone I love.”

“He should-“

The next thing I knew Robinfire was on the floor bleeding out a hold punched into her side. Dead apes were littered all over the place.

I rush over to Robinfire. Her breathing was light.

“Shouldn’t have said,” Robinfire whimpered before going limp.

Prophet Bless grabs my shoulder and pulls me away. One side of my rump burned. I look back to see a large claw gash over my cutie mark.

I felt my eyes water with pain and emotion as we ran into the history room.

Prophet Bless feeds a healing potion down my throat as a voice plays over the PA.

“Some believe there was once a race of beings call humans.”

“What happened?” I asked feeling uneasy.

“You just stopped in mid sentence like you had a seizure,” Prophet Bless told me.

“Humans were sculpted form the earth by the hands of god. They form their own creations and for a time were happy.”

I swallowed nervously,

“What’s the matter,” Prophet Bless orders.

I wiped the tears from my eyes and sniffled a little, “A few years back I was tricked into eating pony meat. There is this brain disease that effect ponies that eat other ponies. There’s no test for it, so there’s always a possibility of it suddenly showing up. Now Robinfire’s dead because of me.”

I couldn’t hold back and started crying into Prophet Bless’s chest.

“The humans had hands and did many good things with their hands. But humans also did many bad things with their hands. They made weapons and had war.”

Prophet Bless pushes me back and he looked into my eyes. His eyes felt warm and loving. It made me blush.

“Nothing you did got Robinfire killed,” He told me, “The girl just has bad luck, Just look at all that happened to her.”

“But, I’m responsible for her,” I replied.

“The past is past,” Prophet Bless said, my head whooshed off at the end.

“The humans finally angered god when they tried to use their hands to become more powerful than him. So god punished the humans by taking their hands away. Without their hands the human civilization soon fell. But god took pity on some humans and gave each of them a little magic.”

I found myself at a different evolution chart. This one showed god turning humans into ponies.

“Yeah, this place is as crazy as I remember it,” Prophet Bless remarks about the display.

“You can come in if you want!” Minty Love shouts from a back door.

I open the door to reveal a living area. The smelled of cooking chocolate hits my nose. A yellow pony with a pink and blue main worked at a stove.

Me and Prophet Bless stood there in shock.

“Sorry, almost done,” She told them with a happy tone in her voice, “Help your self to the done ones.”

“Sure,” Prophet Bless scoops up an arm full of round chocolates.

The idea of eating sweets turned my stomach.

“Welcome,” Minty Love enters from the back room, “Sorry about the Yahoos out there.”

“Oh, Toxie,” The yellow mare hugs Minty Love.

Minty Love kisses her on the cheek. “Hey, Ba’Ma.”

“Toxie?” I asked as Minty Love sits across from me.

“Short of Toxicus, arrows dipped in poison blood,” A tear drops from the mint pony’s eye. She wipes her face with her hoof. “Ironic you think?” Her voice cracks.

“A projectile fired from a stringed instrument,” Prophet Bless remarks with his mouth full, “You are definitely Lyra’s daughter.”

I looked at Ba’Ma. Minty Love catches my look.

“Yes, she’s not a buck,” Minty Love snaps.

“Sorry, Just struck a chord,” I apologized keeping an eye on Ba’Ma. She looked younger then she should be. I was feeling hot and uncomfortable in my seat and started rubbing my legs together.

“Even after she’s dead my mother still does that,” Minty Love remarks.

“Yes,” I answered half listing.

“Are you googleing my Ba’Ma,” Minty Love snaps.

“Ah well,” I blushed.

“I thought the gal looked a little assay,” Prophet Bless remarks

“Stop!” I blushed.

“It’s okay dear,” Ba’Ma swishes her tail and smiles at me.

“Ba’Ma gross, how would Lyra feel when she’s resurrected,” Minty Love exclaimed

“You can do as you want dear,” Ba’Ma replied, “Your mother lived a long life, The accident was a god send for her.”

“I remember you said something about bringing back a god,” Prophet Bless points out.

Minty Love sighs and waves a gold locket, “I suppose now is the time.”

“Fine dear, I won’t be here when you’re done,” Ba’Ma replied.

Minty Love gives the mare one last hug. My heart mourned, I wished I had that kind of relationship with my mother.

“Mind if I keep some of these?” Prophet Bless says to Ba’Ma pointing at another pan of chocolates.

“Sure,” Ba’Ma replied.

Prophet Bless sticks some chocolates in his bag.

I ogled Ba’Ma’s ass one more time as Minty Love led us into the back room.

“Ever noticed you want to bang a lot of mothers?” The pony in my head remark, “Gawd, Xenith, Ba’Ma, There’s like a tone of older mares.”

I could hear a loud sniff near my rear. Turning back I saw Prophet Bless sticking his nose to my tail. He sees me looking and pulls his head back blushing.

The body of Lyra Heartstring lay covered from the neck down in a white shroud. We stood in some kind of cathedral.

Minty Love lifts her gold pendant with her magic. She takes out the red bezoars Sioux Falls coughed up.

“Aglaophotis,” Prophet Bless said in shock.

I looked at him to explain.

“It's a special type of bezoar, When consumed it removes all evil and all of evil’s poison. It’s legendary amongst addicts as something that could cure them of their demons. But rare because it comes from a pony who’s pure of heart and untainted.”

“So, if for example I ate that then-“

“Your body becomes pure and virgin,” Minty Love finished my sentence.”

“I suppose virgin is subjective,” I remarked.

“Yes, it is,” Minty Love swallows the Aglaophotis. “Witness the birth of a new human world!”

A moment later, She pukes up blood and falls to her knees. Blood trickles down her legs. With a wet plop a three tentacled creature falls out of her.

Sirens start blazing, I hear a snapping crackle in my ear. Disoriented my body sways. Out into the bleachers I saw the rusty bull, No this was a golden bull. Next to him were other humanoid beings in masks all in gold. A goat, lion, eagle, monkey, butterfly, and a jackal.

The tentacled thing wraps it’s self around Lyra’s body. Then the creature shoves it’s body down her mouth. Tentacles grabs Minty Love. The mare screams in horror as her flesh fuses with her mother's and the monster's.

The walls crack morph and peel away to reveal gold columns. My body felt like it was doing the same thing.

I looked at my hoof. My foreleg was splits four ways with a snap. My hips spread apart with a crack. My spine creaks like a xylophone. The hair of my tail falls to the floor. My coat brakes off in clumps.

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I was on a golden grated floor. My skin felt cold all over. Wait, skin all over? I looked at my arm. It was pink and fleshy. Is this a human arm?

The statues I seen human’s skin was smooth. This was bumpy and creatored. I looked down at my body as I sat up on my legs. My body was of a nude female. Half of it was burn and scarred with knife and bullet wounds all over.

I closed my eyes, I didn’t want to see. I wanted my fur back. Without my fur I was ugly. At least I still had my horn. Too bad my magic wasn’t working.

I opened my eyes again making sure not to look at my body. I appeared to be in some kind of bathroom. Across from me were golden toilets or thrones if you will. The whole place was like a gold palace.

I stood up avoiding eye contact with the mirror. My balance was wonky at first. My butt felt weird without a tail covering it. Between my thighs felt strange. I explored with my hand and ooo, If I never get my pony form back I got to remember how wonderful hands can be.

“Of course mommy’s little girl would go straight to the wee wee,” The voice in my head teased.

Um, well, anyway everything down there had moved to between my thighs instead of being between my butt cheeks. This kind of made me feel like a buck a little.

I walked out of the bathroom. And promptly dodged an ax. A human pulled the ax back for another swing. He had police barding on from the waist up, wings on his back and naked from the waist down.

“Prophet Bless!” I shouted.

“Littlepip?” The man replied confused. He drops the ax. “You...Look like one of those deformed monsters."

I turned my body away hiding myself in as small of a profile as possible.

“Sorry, I didn’t mean you were ugly,” Prophet Bless replied nervously, trying not to look at my ugly body. “Your face fared well. It’s pretty cute.

“Could you get me something to cover myself with,” I squeaked as I cried. Then motion down at his wang with my head. “And you can cover that up too. This standing up right crap makes us all too exposed.”

“Well this place has the same floor plan as the Humanity Museum,” Prophet Bless notes, “If the bathroom still has toilets. Then that back room by the gift shop should still have costumes.”

“In theory,” I point out, “This place isn’t an exact one to one ratio.”

A nude woman painted in gold gyrates her body in a room full of similar women. Some kind of dubstep techno music played. Something about, Living under a gold moon fallowed with erotic female moans.

All the women had their arms tied above their heads. Their bodies moved and bent in odd ways. Hair dyed black with black lines running down their cheeks from their eyes. They also had red gloves and shoes on their hands and feet. A spool of barb wire was wrapped around each one.

“See these women are attractive,” I pouted, “For human.”

“Ah, Your into bondage?” Prophet Bless teased.

“Me?” I blushed, “No, but my partner is.”

“I think these are those rag doll ponies humanized and all golded up.”

We walked acrossed the room to where the gift shop should be.

The humanized version of Minty Love sat on the counter legs crossed. She was dressed like a pink genie with a lit cigarette in her hand. A scar was on her hip and a sports bow at her side.

“Someone hit you with the ugly stick,” Minty Love remarks at me.

“This is your fault!” I yelled.

“Unintended consequences,” Minty Love shrugged, “Pony fur is highly magical. You can even set thier bodies on fire and their hair will simply grow over the scars as if nothing was there. But you know that don’t you. Speaking of unintended consequences here’s your gear,” Minty Love tosses a beg at my feet, “My mother came back as something that’s not her. I think Ba’Ma knew this.”

“You want me to help you kill her?” I realized.

Minty Love makes a gun jester and “Poo” sound. “But you should find better clothes.”

“That’s what we are here for,” Prophet Bless smirked.

“I seen you die!” I snapped.

“You seen me and my mother become one and the same,” Minty Love replied, “That’s how I know all this is wrong. Really to you sense a mother’s love in this place?”

“No,” I shook my head, “I sensed it with you and your Ba’Ma, This place is a falsesade.”

“Sometimes for me, this place feels true,” Minty Love said sadly.

Minty Love picks out a Mare-do-well costume for me. In foal’s size. I didn’t find it as funny as she did. Using scraps of armored barding and fabric. I reinforced it. I put the mask over my face.

I cracked my knuckles, “Let’s get dangerous.”

“Oh, you used the line from the show that’s adorable,” Prophet Bless squealed.

Yes, I’m about to fight for my life next to and asshole and a pony betrayed me what? Twice?

We stepped back in the bondage dancing room. This time in the room I noticed something strange about one of the rag doll girls. Her hair was shorter than the others. A scar was on her for head and a long thick line was stitched into her chest.

“Robinfire!” I shouted.

I pulled out my combat knife Robinfire shrieks and cries at the sight of the knife.

“Robinfire, it’s me Littlepip!” I tried to calm her down.

“Littlepip no!” Minty Love shouts.

I cut the straps holding Robinfire’s arms. They bleed squirting out black blood. Then there was a screeching sound. The rope holding her retracted into the ceiling.

Robinfire’s hands wrap around my throat. I kicked her away from me and catch my breath. The undead woman hits the ground like a limp doll. She squirms as her arms and legs were dragged against her will.

A set of large doors swing open. Two nude hairless giant gold and overly muscular men stomp into the room. They held large gatling guns at the hip. Ammo belts drug across the floor.

The men fire their guns. Bullets cut through the air and bodies of the women.

Hitting flat on the floor was a good strategy. These creatures weren’t smart enough to at anything laying on the floor.

I feel a sharp pain in my leg. I turned to see Robinfire had a good hard grip on me.

The guns of the gold men stopped firing due to overheating.

“Minty cover me,” Prophet Bless shouts.

Minty Love in a blink of an eye pulls an arrow from the quiver on her back and fires. She hits one of the gold men in the eye. Another arrow flies and she hits the other one in the neck. The two behemoths slowly walk toward her.

Prophet Bless jumps in and came down on Robinfire’s arms with an axe. Two whacks cuts into her flesh. The force broke her bones with a loud crack. It didn’t affect her hands. Prophet Bless raises the ax again.

“Prophet no more!” I cried as he goes down on Robinfire’s hands. The blade goes into my flesh. Robinfire loses her grip as some of her fingers fall to the floor.

Prophet Bless pulls me up off the ground when the guns of the gold men click on. We moved three feet before he forces me to the ground again.

Well we were on the ground, Minty Love fires an arrow to the knee of one of the gold men. He falls, Bullet’s land near me. I didn’t care.

I fought and struggled with Prophet Bless to save Robinfire. The fallen gold man turns toward the other riddling him with bullets.

The gunfire stops. Prophet Bless stands up and drags my feet through the intestine and blood covered floor.

“Stop! We got to save her!” I shriek.

“Littlepip she’s one of them now!” Prophet Bless yells at me.

We ran into another room and sealed the door.

“We can’t leave her like that,” I cried hysterically.

“You are welcome to dance with death and walk out there,” Minty Love remarks, “I wasted enough arrows on you.”

“Littlepip, sweetie, let’s focus on changing this world back it might make her better,” Prophet Bless told me.

This calmed me down, “I’m sorry,” I apologized.

I took a healing potion for my leg. To my horror, I found one of Robinfire’s fingers stuck inside my pant cuff.

My first instinct was to drop it and kick the thing away. I instantly fought that. This could be the last piece of Robinfire anyone could see.

I slipped the finger in my pocket in hopes of giving the body part proper respect later.

A camera flash breaks my concentration. “Look at the yahoos mommy,” From behind a glass wall I could see a pair of horses pointing at me. Not ponies but fill sized horse as white as snow.

“It’s not polite to point dear,” A mother told her child.

I knock on the plexiglass the separated us from the horse race outside. At this point I noticed these horses didn’t have cutie marks.

“What kind of ponies are these?” I remark.

“Houyhnhnms” Minty Love explains, “The human equivalent would be Aryans.”

I looked at her blankly I have no idea what a Houyhnhnm or an Aryan were.

“My mother had this manuscript depicting the journeys of one Luverne Gulliver. It talked about these human worlds. Giants and of little people.” For a moment a look of bless was on Minty Loves face as she reminisced. Then she frowned, “This is just a facsimilarly.”

A heavy thud was at the door we had seal. A quick scan reveal there were no other visible doors in this room. I could see an exit down the hallway located on the other side of the glass.

Prophet Bless fires a shotgun at the window. It blows a hole out of it big enough for us to walk through.

The mother and child horse creatures scream in horror as we stepped out in the hall. We ran for the exit as the gold man burst through the door. He fires his chain gun. The screaming of the mother and child stop. I found myself wishing I did something to help them.

The door marked exit didn’t lead us outside but to another room. The door clicked and locked automatically when it shut.

I kicked at the door in frustration, angry at myself and at the golden monster, “Son of a bitch just killed them,” I cried, Tears soaking through my mask.

“Littlepip, there was nothing you could do,” Prophet Bless told me, “This just happen so suddenly, No one would have been able to save them.”

“I should of,” I screamed, “Robinfire twice,” Puppies as well, “I’m feeling useless!”

Prophet Bless gives me a hug, “It’s okay.”

It took me a moment to calm down. From the looks of it, this was a puzzle room.

A gold monkey in a three piece suit snaps it’s fingers, points forward, gives a thumbs up and then places it’s hands on its crotch. After a few seconds it did the same pattern again. And odd square panel was on the floor in front of the monkey in the room.

There were three more monkeys. They were doing the same routine as the other but with, See no evil, Hear no evil, and Speak no evil themes. A cross the room was another door with a plaque. “Four must stand before their failings.”

“What’s that suppose to mean?” Prophet Bless remarks.

“I think we are suppose to stand in these squares,” I point out.

“Okay, So what’s up with the extra monkey?” Minty love adds, “Why is touch added? That’s not part of the original group.”

“My, my, maybe someone has a masturbation problem,” Prophet Bless remarks. Immediately both Prophet Bless and Minty Love look at me. I blushed, my costume soaked with sweat. I want to strip badly but I also didn’t want to expose my ugly body.

“Okay, so I stand here,” I said flusterly as I walk on the panel, “Next to the monkey touching herself.”

“That doesn’t change the fact that there are four monkeys and three of us,” Minty Love points out.

My hand touches my pocket, “There might technically be four of us in this room,” I suggested nervously pulling out the finger.

“Okay, not going to ask,” Minty Love sighs.

“I suppose she would be Speak no Evil on the account of her talking issues,” I said sadly.

“No, if your masturbation is Feel no Evil then I would be Speak no Evil.”

“Ironically honest of you,” Minty Love remarks.

The path of our conclusions don’t seem right to me. Maybe because I really didn’t want to be the touch yourself pony. Touch yourself…my mind dwelled on the words.

“Littlepip, you should put the finger in front of the See Monkey,” Prophet Bless orders, “Back when, I was investigating her for keeping quite about some illegal activity she saw.”

“Really?” Something was clicking in my head.

“Well, Ba’Ma told me that resurrecting my mother was a bad idea and I ignored her,” Minty Love sighed, “So I’m Hear no Evil.”

Minty Love starts to walk to her supposed place.

“Wait? What if we are wrong,” I suggested.

Minty Love stops. “I don’t know.”

“I think these monkeys are alive,” I point out.

“You have an alternate theory?” Minty Love asks.

I thought for a moment. “Maybe it’s not what it has to do with what we do, but what we don’t do.” I suggested, “I tend to be headstrong and not hear what my friends have to say. Robinfire can’t talk.” I blushed turning to Minty Love, “Your hip injury and your love life.”

“This does make more sense,” Minty Love agrees, “What about Prophet Bless?”

“Seeing fits me too.” Prophet Bless nods.

“Alright, Littlepip lets do what you suggested,” Minty Love decides.

We all took our theoretical places. There was a loud click. A spike goes through the masked monkey’s chests. Panels in the wall open and pulled them in as the door opens.

We stepped in a golden cathedral. A small girl with grayish green hair crawls out from under the front benches.

“Mommy?”

In realization I turn to see Minty Love, I mean Lyra, smack Prophet Bless along the face. He was knocked unconscious, hitting the ground hard.

I instantly pull out my side arm, “I knew it was too good to be true.”

“Don’t hurt my mommy!” Young Minty Love tackles me to the ground.

“Don’t rough her up too much dear,” Lyra said cattily, “I need that body.”

“Minty, Toxic, Please don’t let her do this,” I cried to the girl.

“How do you know my name lady?” Minty Love asks.

“It’s useless,” Lyra told me, “She is the loyal daughter.”

“You brain washed her to her very soul,” I snapped.

I looked at Prophet Bless’s bag. “This!” I suddenly reached over and unzipped the side pocket. Lyra fire’s an arrow into my leg. Round chocolate bon bons roll out onto the floor. Minty Love freezes at the sight of the chocolates.

“Honey, Please tie up the girl,” Lyra orders.

“What?” Minty Love wakes from her stupor.

“Tie the girl up dear,” Lyra says again politely.

“Yes, Mother,” Minty Love reaches down by my side. She swiftly grabs my combat knife and in a quick moment stabs Lyra in the chest.

Lyra’s genie top splits down the middle flopping open. Porcelain cracks run along the woman’s body gleaming gold underneath. Her pants rip away as a gold dragon tail grows out from her butt. Gold wings grow out of her back. Her skin falls off in chunks revealing gold. Wings fuses together. Strings stretch out connecting the wings to her tail. The human harp raised up in the air as the last bits of white and green hair turn gold.

I pull myself up to my feet. I fired at Lyra. My bullets bounce off her golden skin.

Lyra strums the strings on her back. A wave of sound and energy flies at me. It slices my flesh knocking me back.

Minty Love dashes for her bow and arrows laying on the ground. Well her mother was diverted. She fires an arrow. It pierces through the woman’s neck.

Lyra pulls the arrow out and turn toward her daughter. Minty Love quickly fires two more arrows hitting the golden target.

Minty Love reaches around for another arrow. She hesitates when she found out there was only one arrow left. Two waves of sound energy hits the girl slamming her into the wall. Blood spurts from her mouth.

I spotted a chain attached to the wall. A chandelier extends from the chain to over Lyra. The soft metal broke easily from the impact of a bullet.

The chandelier crashed pinning Lyra down. Minty Love stumbles to her feet bow and arrow in hand. She primes her bow aiming at Lyra's head.

“Toxic, it’s mommy please don’t” Lyra begs.

Minty Love lets the arrow loose, “You are not my mother.”
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FOOT NOTE:
Alternate Ending triggered if Littlepip didn’t break Lyra’s spell over Minty Love.
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Littlepip sits nude in the dark. Her fingers playing the strings of a harp. Homage stirs from her rest and sits up kissing Littlepip on the neck. She rubs her hand over the scars in the woman’s back.

“I didn’t know you played an instrument?” Homage notes.

“I guess that new,” Littlepip answers.

“I’m glad we got some more time together well the SPP is down for repairs after the incident,” Homage says into Littlepip’s ear, “But you seem off, sure you don’t remember anything about Silent Ponyville?”

Littlepip kisses Homage on the lips laying her on the bed, “Nothing I want to concern you about.”