Chapter 7 Alt Title: Adventures of a Svadilfari

Unlike the vast majority of Displaced Humans, I myself am apparently the only one capable of manipulating an entire Universe...save for Auric Fulcrum, whom I witnessed disappear from the Multiverse itself and Ascend to False Godhood.

Okay, back up; FALSE Godhood? Umbra, didn't Auric create a bunch of these worlds and stuff when he left the Multiverse? Doesn't that mean he's a god?

Well, yes and no. You see–and by you, I mean the reader–, the thing about a god is that they aren't bound to a three dimensional existence, like most Displaced are. Auric, while negating his 3D existence by warping into a place that acts as one wills it to, would still find himself a 3D being back on Equestria...or any Universe with sentient life, that is. Now, to be a god, one must transcend 3D, being that they negate their need for regular spacetime. They would also need to transcend 4D, as in be a, not Time Traveler, but Time Manipulator. They need to know how to use time itself as their playground, maybe not outright change it, but certainly jump to multiple timestreams. They must be able to transcend into or above 5D, where upon they can... freely... manipulate... the..... multiver–ohshit.

OH SHIT.

NONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONONOOOoooooooooooooo

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN!?

HOW IN THE NINE HELLS, FROZEN PEAKS OF TARTARUS, SEVEN HEAVENS, ASS CRACK OF DAWN, DID I MANAGE TO ASCEND INTO TRUE GODHOOD!?!?!?!?!?!?

Crap. This means I'm a bigger target than I thought I was. I was fine when I stuck to Equestria as a 3.5D being, but once I hit paradox space I must have ascended. I wonder how I never realized those extra D's?

I know what you're thinking right now. Stop. Seriously. No sex jokes.

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Hey Author, exposition sucks! Can we get to the next scene!? I wanna meet the Loopers!

I could pop over to your Universe and write my own story, y'know

Those extra line breaks are entirely unnecessary you know.

July 17th

I've been training for almost a year now, really about ten months, if'n my maths is correct. Don't correct that 'is', it's there for a reason. I've learned to copy anything that casts a shadow, though anything like Excalibur, that being anything that produces something that can hurt/kill me, usually disintegrates right after a single use and leaves me magically dryer than a prune in the Sahara Desert. It sucks because I'm literally made of paradox shadows held together by magic; too little magic and I start to fade into the background. At least I can regain my normal form after a few months.

Speaking of training, well, not to brag, but I can code an entire Universe and have it running in approximately 3 earth seconds. Not reprogram a dead Universe, not grow a New Universe, but code a Universe into existence out of the very fabric of paradox spacetime itself. What do you mean how do I do it? Oh, you want to know the steps, I get it.

Simple, right? Well...yeah. Oh, another thing I learned: a sufficiently advanced Shadow Manipulator, i.e. Makuta Teridax or an insane Sakura Matou, would be capable of using me as they would any other shadow, though I can now jump my consciousness from one shadow to another, rendering it a moot point.

Well... I guess I am bragging. Whoops.

Wanna hear some stories about my travels?

June 3rd

Okay, so, about a month ago I was drifting in the Equestria cluster some thousand Universes away from home, same as usual, when I found a Universe whose localized gravity protocols were completely fucked up. Curiously, I decided to scan the bubble and found that it was the Universe of a Displaced. Specifically, a Displaced by the name of Kat Shifter.

At that point I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

Slipping into the Universe by coding in a 'back door access', I quickly found myself hurtling through the skies over Mount Canterlot...or whatever it's called. Hey, I never bothered to learn, okay? Anyways, I noticed that Discord had been freed, so about a year or so behind when I arrived...so two years behind my Equestria. Ahem. Moving on, after quietly observing for a few hours, Discord was sealed again, and another statue burst apart; Kat Shifter's Statue. I noticed her screaming, and after another few hours of Observation, she left to Ponyville, me following the whole way. Oh, and she took out some guards too, although much less efficiently as I would have. I knew from that moment that, while partially dangerous, Kat Shifter was, admittedly, not really much of a threat to any of my machinations; those being, in order: Tour the multiverse, gain souvenirs, and stay alive. I hate scheming, it's so boring.

The only thing that she had that'd do anything to me would be her black hole attack, and that would do nothing useful...maybe make me stronger, but nothing dangerous. You can't crush a shadow with gravity, after all.

Well, I'd watched her for a few days, then after hearing her desire to kill the princesses, I knew that a) she was not exactly as sane as I thought previously, and b) she had to be stopped. Why, you ask? Why would I stop someone who only wants to avenge her only friend? Look at what happened to Sasuke Uchiha. You understand now? Well also because of the fact that the Sun and Moon were still in a geosynchronous orbit, and killing the Princesses would either cause the Sun and Moon to crash into the Planet and kill everyone, or cause them to freeze in place and kill everyone on the planet. Yeah, bad.

Of course, relatively early in the "Extra-Fourth Wall Timeline"(Early in the story chapters), I didn't know what she'd do next, but I decided to fracture the timeline again anyways. The last time I did so was back when I visited God Slaying Blade Works back in chapter 6, so it's safe, it just sounds worse than it is.

Wait...a coin? Oh crap, it's Auric!

SKEDADDLE

When Auric showed up, I skedaddled–that was seriously the sound effect I shit you not–to the old castle in the Everfree to avoid being sensed. I didn't know what Auric would do, probably something benign, but I didn't stick around to find out. Policy of subtlety and all. And then I found a hologram of a cat.

"So, you must be Dusty...odd look for a cat"

"....."

"I know you're saying something, but I can't hear you too well. You calling Kat?"

A nod.

"Guess I should just wait and see now....oh shit she's almost here"

"..."

"I think I'm starting to hear you better...you're just calling out to Kat, aren't you?"

“Ka~~t!”

"Oh, there's your voice....are those footsteps?"

And suddenly the timeline fractured into an AU.

“Over here, mistress. It is go-good to see you ag-again.”

And Kat ran into the throne room.

"DUSTY!!"

I'm not intruding on this scene...not yet.

"Th-there's someone e-else here too"

"Shit, man, did you have to tell her!?"

CRACK CRACK CRACK

That's the sound of a fracturing timeline.

"Who the hell are you?"

She sounds angry, better stop spacing out.

"Umbra Shadow-Walker, at your service madame. Shadow manipulator extraordinaire and an accidental low level true god. Creator of thirty different Universes, destroyer of three, collector of strange and fascinating souvenirs. Partially insane and also kind of a pussy. Not affected at all by gravity. Literally made of shadows. Tourist of the infinite Multiverse. Displaced human with very strange luck. I could go on."

She looks suspicious... I wonder what she's thinking right now... "Bullshit. There's no way you're a god."

"Well... you have to understand that being a god really only means that you can dimension hop without a token and you can fuck around with timelines. Pretty easy once you figure out how to leave your own Universe. Problem is, you don't have the correct power set."

"What do you mean?"

"Gravity doesn't work in the void. Shadows and chaos magic do. So no goddess-hood for you until you learn some magic."

I honestly can't tell what she's thinking right now... telepaths must never be confused in a conversation.

"Oh look behind you, some Nevi are appearing."

THAT got a reaction. "What!?"

SLICE WHOOSH THUD CRUNCH SMACK SQUELCH QUACK

"Quack? Never heard that one before... oh look, a duck! That explains it."

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!?" Hm, looks like a mix of outrage and confusion... smug bastard response it is; just for the hell of it.

"Like I said, shadow manipulator extraordinaire. Badass comes with the territory. What, like you couldn't take them down just as fast."

"..."

"What?"

"..."

"Alright, alright, I'm leaving. I can see you need some time to stew."

WHOOSH

After that, I teleported to Canterlot, just to touch base with the Princesses of the realm. It was about as boring as it gets, after all the initial panicking went through.

Long story short, I ended up helping Kat with the Nevi, and forced her to work through her issues with the Princesses, who, I'm surprised to say, just stood there and let her beat the crap out of them for a while. And then...well...I just disappeared while the three worked out their...differences.

End Chapter 7

Author's Notes:

Okay, you may be wondering, "Jysrin, dude, what's with short chapter?"

There's a reason for that.

I'm going to write a crossover. A legit one this time. With Ssendam the Masked and Thadius0.
It's gonna be sweet.
So tune in next time for a a brutal (hopefully) collision between Bionicle, Dark Souls...and what still technically counts as Disney.

Damn Umbra's human self's costume.