It was a low day, I was just lounging around in my throne room, laying over my throne like a cat over a freshly washed and neatly folded pile of your best clothes.

"Gaaahh!" I groaned out loudly before shouting again "Gnarl!"

No reply.

"Gnarl! Move your ass, I´m bored out of my skull here!"

//Umbra the Overlady, I summon you.//

A grin split my face. "Oh boy, momma is goin´ on another road trip!" I jumped of my throne as I began to feel the by now familiar tingle of trans-dimensional teleportation fill me. I grabbed my mace and my helmet and all but jumped into the center of my throne room. Just in time as the blue light erupted from underneath me and once again I felt sickenly weightless.

As the light show faded away, I was standing in the middle of a sea of endless golden wheat. I looked around.

"Okay, the sky is not dull grey and there is no grayscale and black house around so I am not in Deaths little sub-dimension. So far so good." I stated mostly to myself. "Oi! Someone called for the Overlady?" I then called out.

After a while, I spotted something black in the sea of gold. "Hey, yo! You over there." I called and began walking over "Didja called for me?" Hmm, black hair, black shirt, black wristbands over long dark violet and black striped fingerless gloves, some tartan-ish dark violet skirt. Jepp, looked like a sunny personality.

"I guess I did." The woman responded, seizing me up. "I'm guessing you are Umbra?"

"Yeppers peppers, that´s me." I gave a grin. "And who are you?"

"I'm Black Alice, just Alice if you prefer." Huh, that sounded familiar.

"Black Alice hn?" I took my helmet off and hooked it on my belt "Black Alice... Black... Alice... hmmm, say, does the name Teth Adam or Shazam ring any bells to you?" I asked in a chit-chat tone, looking around a bit and taking the scenery in. Quite peaceful round here.

"Yes, I am very familiar with those names. How do you know of them?" Alice stated calmly while she kept her face neutral, while looking like her thoughts were doing summersaults.

"Ah, heh heh, y´see, I´m an avid reader and I occasionally read DC comics too, that´s where I got my knowledge about Teth "Black" Adam and Shazam from and then I simply shot into the blue, seeing as you share the 'Black' part of the name." I tapped my nose "That and your whole body emanates a rather interesting kind of Mana. I guess that’s the living lightning stuff, yes?"

"Correct. Considering I recently used the power of Shazam to deal with some punks I guess that particular bit of magic left a big imprint. But what about you? I do not recognize you from anything."

A big smile graced my lips. "Woohoo, I guessed right. Did I win something? Well, yours truly here," I pointed at myself "Is the Overlady. That is, I am the first female Overlord ever. The Mistress of Minions, all the Things that go bump in the night, Bane of Heroes and all that shit." I giggled a bit "Aw come on, don´t give me that look. Overlord is a pretty funny video game, you practically play the generic evil Ruler all generic Heroes go up against." I took in a deep inhale of air. "S´ pretty beautiful round here. Peaceful too. Where are we exactly? Can´t see Mt. Canter anywhere."

"That's because we're really far from that area. We are currently standing in the wheat fields that belong to the local Buffalo tribe that lives near Appleloosa. I came here to think up my next move after I defeated King Longhorn and his gang, next thing I know the Phantom Stranger pops up scaring the crud out of me and begins telling me some weird stuff, hands me your token and disappears before I can get in a word edgewise."

"Oh great, the Mild West again." A groan escaped me "After all the shit Darkrai put me through I had planned to not come anywhere near the place for a while. Ah well, what's done is done." I start rummaging through my belt pouch "Soo, you have a mysterious and annoying mentor watching your butt hn?"

"Calling him a mentor is a bit of stretch but for all intents and purposes I guess. Who knows what is going through that guy's mind." Alice sighs and rubs her temple.

"Like I said, annoying... HA!" I found what I was looking for and held my hand out, producing an object as long as my finger and formed like an exclamation mark. "There you are beautiful." I cooed to the blunt, before looking at Alice. "Do you mind if I take a puff? Found it while doing laundry and was waiting for a good moment. Seeing as its all peaceful here, I could not imagine a better one. You can have a drag too, if you want."

"Not to sound unhospitable but I'd rather you didn't, we are in a wheat field I don't want to deal with a fire. And I don't smoke."

"Fair enough." With that I stashed the joint back in my pouch. "Soo, what do you need me for? Someone to beat up or just wanna have someone who is not covered in fur to speak to? Both is fine with me."

"Well the reason I called you here was because I was hoping you could provide info on...what did Phantom Stranger call them again? Oh yes the Displaced. What are the Displaced? And who is this punk called the Merchant?"

"Ahh, so you need someone to give you 'the talk'." I patted the other woman on the shoulder with a broad grin. "Don´t ya worry Hon, let auntie Umbra here tell you all about it. Come, let´s walk a bit. I can rarely just take a walk back home without someone trying to off me."

Alice looked again like in rather deep thought before she asked "Okay, do you just want to wander in the fields or head back to town?"

"Oh, back to town sounds nice. I´m curious what kind of Verse you have here." I said and we began walking. "So, first, the Displaced. That one is simple. WE, my dearest, are the Displaced. Beings ripped from their home dimension and put into another, in this case, Equestria. From what I have gathered, most of us got displaced by the Merchant by buying some kind of prop at a con and poof, here we are. As for who the Merchant is, he is for all I know Cthulhu's little brother, an eldritch abomination with god-like powers who displaces random people for shit and giggles. But there is also at least one other being out there that does displacing too, a Filipino woman. I don't know really much about her, except that she displaced Zinnia, my..." I blushed a bit "My girlfriend. She is some kind of dragon Pokemon hybrid."

Black Alice stopped walking. "Your what?"

I stopped walking too. "My girlfriend. What? She summoned me, we fought side by side, we discovered that we both liked the same kinky shit, banged Princess Cadence and Shining Armor in Celestia´s throne room together with Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, then went home to her place, just the two of us and had some more intense fun with her roomie. It was the next morning that I realized I was in love with that crazy woman and guess what, she loves me too, so we hooked up." I paused for a moment "That´s not a problem for you, or is it? That I am Bi, I mean? I promise, I won´t put any moves on you if you´re not into that."

"No, It's not that. It's just, we live in different dimensions and from what I hear long distance relationships don't work out so it just came as a surprise is all. Hell, until Phantom Stranger showed up and told me otherwise I thought I was the only one here."

"Heh, don´t worry." I waved my hand a bit to show it was ok "That´s what tokens are for Alice. Also, good transition to my next point of lecture. You see, we Displaced work a bit like the Undead in Dark Souls. Just instead of soapstone's, we have tokens. You have already mine. Tokens are technically a Displaced´s personal business card. It is an item that represents you and is infused with a fraction of our power that we program with a catchy phrase we come up with and send it out into the Multi-Verse so other Displaced can call us over for a round of jolly cooperation. There are a bajilion tokens out there and in general you can at least somewhat guess the character of a Displaced from his or her token. It´s always good to have some tokens as back-up should things get hairy. Which reminds me, if you ever find a golden banana, don´t, I repeat, DON´T use it or answer a call from someone called Donkey Kong. Obviously he is a raging sex fiend and his Verse is a rape-happy anthro Verse." I shuddered at that.

"What is the name of that verse?" Black Alice asked curiously.

"Oh, the Verses normally are named after their Displaced but that is totally unofficial. Wade, the guy I got the banana from, had accidentally wandered into there and had to protect his... well, body from the inhabitants for quite a while."

"It's 'Fall of Equestria' isn't it?" Alice guessed, looking hopeful for some reason.

"Hm? Never heard of that. From what Wade told me, the inhabitants were practically in heat all the time, males and females, and did not know how to take a No for an answer, seeing it as totally normal to force sex onto someone." I continued walking "Anyhow, every Displaced can make a token, so you should be able to do to, if you want to join the club. Just take an object that you think represents you the best, listen to the little voice in your head, put some of your juice in it and voila. The Void should take care of the rest. This way, Zinnia and I stay in contact, by the way."

"I got it." Alice stretched out her hand and cried out to the heavens.

SHAZAM!

KRAAKOOOM!

A giant lightning bolt struck and in the palm of Black Alice's hand laid a Black Ankh with the cross colored white and shaped like a lightning bolt next to it was a long horn and a feather of a hawk threaded together in a necklace.

After jumping a good meter in the air, my breathing began to normalize again "Sweet Mother Mary riding a motorcycle girl! Gimme a warning next time."

"Heh sorry. Now what should I say? Let's see....'I am Black Alice if you need help beating the shit out of someone/thing, need some healing or just want to hang out then summon me and I'll be there.' What next?"

"Well," I said only for Alice token starting to float and glow on her palm, then a small portion of the reality itself ripped open and a shower of smaller lightning bolts shot from the glowing token into the Void. That went on for a while, then the token stopped glowing, the rift closed and the token fell lifeless back into Alice hand. "That is new. At least your token is out now, I suspect." I pointed at the original token "Hey, mind if I have this?"

"Go ahead. It's a duplicate anyway. I don't know what I'd do with it." Alice said handing the necklace to me. "The Ankh is made of real Onyx at least the black part, the white is made of real pearl, the horn is real and so is the feather. Just so you know."

"Sweet, gotta love authentic bling." I grinned widely. "Hmm, that horn though, I dunno, what kind of animal was that from?"

"Oh that?" Alice smiled savagely "I ripped it off of King Longhorn. A bull who used to lead a gang that tried to take over Appleloosa. Now he is in the hospital suffering severe injuries. Heh, heh heh."

"Ho ho ho, girl! I gotta say, I like you more and more. Nothing than showing some idiot that is not as hot as he thought he is, amirite?" I tied the necklace on my belt. Then I looked around to see that we had arrived at the town´s border already. "Wow, time flies when you have fun eh Alice?"

"Indeed. Since you've been a Displaced longer than I have I doubt you'll be surprised by what you see. But still fair warning these aren't your average ponies or buffalo. They're different from the show." Alice said but I could see that there was something that worried her a bit.

"Hey, as long as they don't try to kill me on sight because I am 'evil' or can take a No if they are not my type, I think we will get along swimmingly." I answered reassuringly "I am pretty curious what you call different though."

"You'd have to do something pretty bad to get them to try to kill you but then if you did something like that then you'd be facing me too, as for what I mean by different I mean," Alice pointed to the nearest pony who was walking on two legs instead of four, neatly dressed in a western settler outfit too. "They are even more anthropomorphic than in the show."

A laugh escaped my lips. "Hot damn, another Verse with anthro ponies. Now you got me jealous Alice. It seems nearly everyone got an anthro Verse and I had to end up in a Verse with normal ponies." I quipped before finishing in a more serious tone "Not that there are not some ponies I wouldn´t push out of my bed."

"Oh? Like who? From the sounds of it you're pretty open to anyone."

"Damn right, I´m a dirty freak in all the best ways!" I laughed again "Hmm, lesse, of course Luna, Fluttershy if she would not faint on the spot, Cadence if she is anywhere as kinky as in Zinnias Verse, maybe together with Shining in a nice threesome and maybe I would even give Derpy a try. What? She´s cute plus she has dat ass."

"Fair point. I don't know what the others are like the only canon characters I've met are Little Strongheart, Braeburn, Chief Thunderhooves and King Longhorn. Truth be told I don't know if I'll ever meet any others at least not while I'm trying to pursue my new goal. Hell I don't know if I'll even have any relationships outside of friends." Alice told me. Hm, was that a hint of uncertainty in her voice?

I shrugged "Hey, it happens when it happens. Besides, ain´t nothing wrong with just a quick tumble in the sheets when you need to unwind a bit. Now," I licked my lips "Somewhere round here had to be a bar or something, I mean, this is a cowboy... cowpony? Cowpony town, there is bound to be a bar and I am pretty thirsty."

"Well there is the Salty Spittoon but I don't really go there, I don't drink." Alice pointed to a gray building that had the sounds of a fight coming from it.

"Well, I´m not about to drink my cute ass off, just one or two glasses. Come on, I´m sure they have some nonalcoholic stuff too. Ohh, and from the sound of it, there is a show too. This will be fun."

Alice shrugged and began walking toward the only building, in a way a person would normally approach a minefield or something similarly pleasant.

When we got to the bar there was indeed a fight going on but it didn't last long when the customers spotted us, they froze in place in fact the whole bar went silent.

It had a totally comic-esque quality to it. Like someone had pushed the “pause” button on the remote control of life. Even the handful of stallions that had moments prior been busy beating each other up over what looked like a game of cards, where completely frozen. One of them even had a fist hovering just a few millimeters away from his nose.

>>Hehehe, enter the hot, dangerous desperado chicks.<< I thought, smugly grinning before saying "Wow, please, don´t stop on our accounts fellas. We´re just here for some drinks, hn, Alice?" I nudged my new friend with my elbow. Then I marched up to the counter, leaning on it, looking for the bartender. "Hey there, barkeep. Do me a solid and fetch me a beer, that would be great. And something nonalcoholic for my friend, would you? Thanks a ton." Then I turned around, again addressing all the gathered patrons staring at me like I was Celestia, only dressed in a thong and a smile. "Hey, come on. I thought the Mild West was livelier than that. You handsome stallions are not intimidated by two women who just want a drink or two, or are you? Live up a bit." I gave a broad smile, showing all my pearly whites.

"I think it's just that they're surprised that the savior of the town would suddenly show up in a place like this." Alice ventured her guess before turning to the customers "It's alright everyone, go back to what you were doing, we are just here for some drinks and what not! In fact, Barkeep give everyone two rounds on me. That should cool everyone down." Alice pulled out a decent sized bag full of bits and placed it on the counter.

"What she said." I said, turning around to see that in front of me stood a decent sized glass with a lightly amber colored beer, capped with a small white foam crown right beside a glass with a bright yellow and sweet smelling liquid. Lemonade if I had to guess. I raised my glass to Alice, saying "Cheers." before taking a swig. "Ahhh. Wunderbar."

"Out of curiosity, are you German or do you just like saying German things?" Alice asked suddenly.

Licking the foam from my lips, I gave a short nod "German through and through. You know, now that you point it out, I realized that ever since I landed here, I had to make a conscious effort to speak my mother's tongue while I instead speak fluently English. Even my accent is mostly gone." Another sip from the delicious booze. "What about you?"

"My dad says I have Samoan in me and my mom says there's some African as well but I forget what tribe. Oh yeah, Zande."

"Hoh, neat." I emptied my glass and slammed it on the counter "That hit the spot alright. Best stuff I drank in a damn while." I looked over my shoulder, watching the returned hustle and bustle of the bar. "Ah. I just remembered something you probably should know." I held up a finger in realization. "A summon normally never lasts the same amount of time and the time one is away from one’s own Verse does not necessary conform with the time that passes in your home Verse. For example, you can be in a different Verse for a whole week and in your Verse, it could just be about an hour. The opposite can also happen. You can be in another Verse for just an hour and once you are back, you see that more than three month have passed in your Verse. And also, there is a phrase for a summoner to send a summoned Displaced back before the summon runs out on itself. I learned that from Zinnia. All you have to do is saying 'X, our contract is fulfilled/complete.' Just replace the X with the name of the Displaced. Don´t know how it works though, strange Multi-Verse shit for all I know."

"Like Narnia. I had a feeling that would be the case."

"Ha! Amen to that sister." I chuckled. "Hey, if you ever meet Aslan, gimme a call. I always wanted to ride some epic lion-god-thing around." I ordered a second beer before looking at Alice again. "Sooo, what have you been up to since you landed in magic pastel horsey land? Besides beating the snot out of gangs, I mean? Had some other epic adventures already?"

"No. I've been biding my time. Just because I've apparently arrived in a real live version of a show I watched doesn't mean it operates the same way."

"Yeah, tell me about it. First pony I met wanted to dissect me to bring forth Unicorn supremacy."

Alice couldn't help but laugh at the thought. "Unicorn supremacy? Pfft, why is it that everyone thinks that Unicorns secretly act like Nazis or some other such nonsense?"

"Dunno. Maybe because they did Celestia's and Luna's jobs before them? Seriously, no damn idea but I took an ass-load of offense at that." I nipped at my new beer. "I would not be half surprised to actually find a blonde, blue eyed earth pony called Arianne with a swastika in pink heart for a cutie mark somewhere. The Multi-Verse seems to love to fuck with me like that."

Alice's eyes went wide, "You're shitting me right? Please tell me you are kidding. Ugh, why am I surprised? Multiverse logic, of course a pony like that would exist. Next thing you know Adolf Hoofler was real." She looked close to a face-palm.

"Don´t jinx it girl!" I laughed and gave Alice a slight, friendly punch. "And my money is on Neighdolf Bittler."

Alice chuckled, then downed her lemonade in one gulp. "Why I'll bet you anything there is a pony out there who believes in communism."

That got another chuckle out of me. "Oh, I can totally see it. Probably short, chubby and a pot cut."

"Nah, most likely it will turn out to be a combination of Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer."

"Do ho ho, then Equestria would be royally fucked." And down went the rest of my beer. "Haaah. Well, at least you could more or less chill since you got here. Me? Gnarl is sicking my ass all over Equestria to retrieve my lost Minion hives. Hives are where my Minions are born at. Until now I only had to face a Diamond Dogs Alpha who wanted to wear my skin as a cape and made my tower his new doghouse. If that trend would continue, I would not be surprised if I end up going against every major bad guy just to get my stuff back."

"Sounds rough. By the way, why do you call yourself "evil"? You don't act villainous, anti-heroic or even anti-villainous, so why?"

"Ohh, mostly for appearances. But the other reason is that ponies seemed to be chronically unable to see grayscales, they just see black and white. I killed a Unicorn and two Griffins out of self-defense, yet my face looks from nice posters with a big sum underneath. Also, I always like to say 'There are the good Guys and the bad Guys and the good Guys assign the bad Guys'. So what if I kick a puppy today because I feel like it and tomorrow I rescue blind orphans from a burning building. Oh, plus ponies, at least in most Verses, are extremely xenophobic and two-faced. Love and Harmony for all, sure, as long as you are a pony. If not, BAMM! Say hello to the orbital rainbow cannon. So I simply stopped caring to correct them. If they like me, like Lyra, fine. If not, I trip them, take their cakes and run for it." At the end of my little tirade, I simply shrugged.

"So the xenophobia is actually a thing and not just the staff being stupid? Huh. Well I don't know about the rest of the world but Appleloosa seems just fine when it comes to non-ponies, I suppose it's a given considering they live with a lot of non-ponies. How many non-ponies live in or near Ponyville? Three, four, five?"

"Seems mostly a thing in Norm-Verses. Anthro ponies seem a bit more open." I hummed before counting on my hand "Non ponies in Ponyville eh? There´s Spike but he is out because he is cute. Then there is Zecora, she was shunned for years just because she is a zebra. Oh and of course there is Mister DeLacey." I said, deliberately not saying the name Discord out lout.

"Don't forget the donkey couple Cranky and Matilda plus that one mule that shows up at random times.

"Oh yes, can´t forget those three. Hey, wanna see something cool I learned from one of Twilight's books?"

"Sure but if you genderbend me we are going to have a major physical debate on our hands." Alice warned.

"Oohh, really?" I licked my lips with half-lidded eyes before grinning. "Don´t worry, I can´t do that stuff. But what I can do is..." I concentrated on my Pony spell again and felt the warm tingle of the illusion wash over me, making me look like a normal pony with a slightly smaller, female Big Mac build with black fur, brown bedhead mane and tail, yellow eyes and a red scary face for a cutie mark. "This. Ta-daa."

"Nice. Must be handy for when you want to hide in plain sight. Though I bet I could top that." Alice grinned mischievously.

"It´s hella useful for buying panties, let me tell ya. There is this shop in Ponyville called 'Refrigerators & Lingerie', they sell some damn fine undies. I swear if I had not found that shop by chance while I was in Wade's Verse so I could go shopping there in mine, going commando would have become a habit for me." I let the spell fall away and leaned on the counter with an equally mischievous smile, completely ignoring the small crowd my little stunt had attracted. "Do tell, or better, do show me."

"I wouldn't know, I don't wear panties. SHAZAM!"

"Wait, what? Oh shit, not aga...."

KKRRRAAKKOOOM!!!

A bolt of divine lightning struck and Alice disappeared but in her place was an exact copy of me, only more enhanced in every sense of the word.

"God damn..." I stared with a slightly open mouth "Girl, just now I am sooo ready for some masturbation if you catch my drift. Never knew the living lightning could do that."

"Few do. I'll admit even I didn't know at first until I picked up an issue of "The Power Of Shazam" where Billy used it to become his "Uncle" and since they hardly utilize Captain Marvel anymore well... it fell into obscurity."

"Now that´s good to know if I ever met another Displaced with your powers. And another fact for my personal trivia treasure chest. That and that you are a professional commando." I winked at “myself”.

"I highly doubt you'll meet anyone with a power like mine. And I do not go commando, I just don't wear panties."

"It´s a damn big Multi-Verse, ya never know." I sing-songed before asking in a more conspiratory voice with a shiteating grin "Uuuh, thongs then? Or are you more a boxer shorts type?"

"Maybe but I still doubt it, I don't just call upon the power of Shazam and the latter, panties just don't suit me.

>>Not in my head, there they suit you just fine, ho yeah.<<

"Well, if you say so and... Oh..." I was about to ask Alice about what other power she had beside the living lightning as the Multi-Verse once again demonstrated its immaculate timing as I felt the tugging at my core. "Oh lovely, looks like my time is over for now." Blue light began to erupt from underneath me "See ya later Alice, don´t be a stranger and give me a call. Or maybe I call you over sometimes. Toodles." And with that, I was whisked back home.

I was unceremoniously dumped in the middle of my throne room. With a sigh I stood up and made a beeline to my room. All those talking about going commando and preferences about panties had gotten to me.

>>Garl?<<

>>Yes Milady?<<

>>The next hour or so, my rooms is a restricted area, I have to let off some steam.<<

Author's Notes:

Another last minute update.

This is a crossover brought to you in collaboration with the lovley Inazuma and her story "Black Fury, Red Logic". Go give it a looksee, it´s really gud.^^b