Chapter 2 Alt Title: Loopers and Non Loopers

You have to admit, the Idea that someone could have fucked up a Local Multiverse's coding so badly is astounding. I mean honestly, who even built the Yggdrasil Branch anyways?

One thing that I should mention is that there are 'Branches' of Multiversal Jurisdiction for all SysAdmins. I myself am in Branch 445903 Beta, the Bubble Branch. Not the coolest of names, but they're named by their primary Universe Manifestation Shape. The Yggdrasil Branch resembles a really goddamn huge trees, with Universes and their Variants Branching off, with the Core Base Template Universes as roots. The tree itself is badly damaged, scars and holes, some gigantic bits missing, Branches floating around, slowly being dissolved... It was a colossal mess... and I got a transfer to help out.

Oh yeah, Branches can cross Admin, what one Admin does in his sector he can do in another. It's a bit like how money works in one part of a country, just like it works in another part, even if the culture is different.

Therefore, I can administer aid to Yggdrasil, and End the Loops.

Entering Yggdrasil itself is an interesting experience, since as soon as I got into the Debug layers of the Lower Jurisdiction, I found myself stared at by hundreds of beings, all of them deities (Though lower in scale than me), and all of them curious.

Raising my hands above my head in the classic 'surrender' pose, I made my message clear.

"My name is Umbra Shadow-Walker, System Administrator from a nearby Multiverse Branch. I was transferred here to aid the beings in charge in any way that will fix this Branch."

One thing that should be noted is that, there's only one Admin here... and he's often lending aid to other Admins. Due to the fact that the only thing in the Branch was a giant, floating tree, it's understandable. The Bubble Branch is one of the biggest Branches, as such, it needs a hell of a lot of Admins.

As soon as I had finished my statement, I was mobbed by the various deities, all of them begging me to help repair the Multiversal coding.

"Alright, alright, jeez. Hold on... alright, I'm going to be doing this from the Void, so if I don't come back, don't try and find me. None of you have enough Dimensions to really work in the void."

With that, I disappeared from their view and landed back in the void. Opening the Command Terminal for the central coding of the Branch, I noticed just how many flaws there were in the code, and saw that the collapse had been inevitable from the very beginning. I knew an Admin from the Bubble Cluster who would have done this, but Yggdrasil is an old system, still running ShadowBurn C, something that predates even Shadow A++. And the thing is, it's so old it's not regular Command Lines, no it's motherfucking Trinary Command. 1, 0, and 1/0. Qbits. Fuck all.

Rolling up my non existent sleeves, I set to work, first compiling all the salvageable data, then copying it out and rewriting it into compatibility with my new Program System, BlackBox OSX, which is UMBRA OS-, but more streamlined and user friendly in its interfaces.

That took a relative seven millennia, simply due to the sheer amount of repeat data and Subspace Pocket Data that needed defragging. Oh, and the fact that it was a Multiverse Branch I was rewriting.

Shit's hard, man.

After that, I decided to take a break, venturing into Looping Equestria for the heck of it.

936.5

I stared at the numbers floating above my head, slightly bemused.

"...I guess?"

Moving on, I found myself inside Canterlot Castle, Twilight's old library tower, to be exact. Said purple unicorn was sitting in the center of the room, reading that one storybook that appeared in the first episode.

"Good afternoon, Twilight."

"Gah! Who the tree are you!?"

She looked shocked, guess it's pretty expected when a being made of shadows randomly pops into your Universe and greets you.

"My name is Umbra Shadow-Walker. I am a SysAdmin of the Void and I'm here to lend any and all aid that is necessary to repair this section of the Multiverse."

"Oh! That's great to hear! Wait... section? I thought Yggdrasil was the Multiverse?"

'Mortals and their lack of knowledge of the Multiverse. I shall have to rectify that.'

"Nope, just a small part of the actual Multiverse. Think of an infinite city, like one of the larger ones on Earth. Each and every building is its own self-contained section of the actual Multiverse, save for the one at the exact center, which is for...other reasons that are technically classified. Each Universe is like a Computer... hold on, let me rephrase that. The Void is a giant Computer, every Multiverse section a very large data packet, each Universe a much smaller data packet. Basically just envision a matryoshka doll made of computers, really. But anyways, I came here to relax... how many others are Awake at the moment?"

She sends off a pulse of... I dunno... magic, I guess? And quickly replies.

"Just about everyone that's looped already, actually."

"Good. Makes my actions much easier to show in broad daylight then."

She looked startled, "Wait, what actions?"

But I was already gone, headed off to Ponyville.

Third Person View Activate

Upon arriving in Ponyville, Umbra noticed that, not only did it look different than it normally did, it was also populated by... crystal ponies?

"Did... did something happen here? Is that why everything looks different!?"

And indeed, everything in Ponyville was made of crystal, unfortunately blinding Umbra slightly due to the refracted light. He noticed that the crystal ponies didn't seem to have any problems, though he did note that he was receiving a lot of curious stares.

"Oh... hello.... move along nothing to see here... uhhh...."

Umbra quickly made his leave, not enjoying interacting with ponies, something about his previous personality and the fact that [Jsyrin] absolutely sucks at the whole dialogue thing.

"That you do, author."

Shut up.

"Make me!"

Umbra quickly found himself unable to speak.

".....!!!!!"

And your mother was a two dollar wh– ahem.

Umbra also lost his ability to move. And use his shadow manipulation. And his Admin abilities.

Take that, bitch.

"..."

Fine. Me messing with you wouldn't be much of a chapter anyways. What do you mean "I have no inspiration for this chapter so you should just let me go back to work"!?

Fine.

Umbra quickly left the Universe, resuming his work on fixing Yggdrasil. Since it's not exactly the most interesting thing to watch, mostly Umbra just making typing motions on various glowing screens really, we'll just cut to later.

First Person Activated

Six Millennia later

Okay, I managed to fix Yggdrasil... the Admin here really fucked up... good thing I managed to compile all that data into a manageable pile... Hey... is the timeline splitting? Not just any timeline, MY timeline!

Oh shit! Something's happening!

Third Person, Again

With a sound not unlike a sickening BLORPLE, Umbra's timeline immediately branched into two directions, one continuing his part in the War of Understanding, the other heading off into an alternate timeline where he would meet (and most likely get married to) the cutest female draconequus that he'd ever met.

This is what we like to call a

CROSS PROMO!

Or just shameless self promotion, folks

End Chapter Two