The Beating of my Heart.
Chapter 18: Come to the dark side...We have cookies. (Edited)
Previous Chapter Next Chapter"So, how's your food aunty?" Celestia asked with a smile. "... Come on it's been almost two months now and the only time you've spoken with us is a small thanks whenever we relieve you of duty. You can't keep giving us the silent treatment forever." Celestia said with a frown as I just continued to eat. With my lack of a response Celestia just sighed. "Alright I've had enough. Knowing you I've prepared the best way to get you to forgive us. I didn't want to do it but we need communication now so I'm bribing you." She continued as I finished my meal and gave her a flat look. It had better be a good one. I thought to myself as the girls lead me away from the table.
It was a long walk down beneath the palace itself into one of the palaces cellars. It was a huge room with large stone brick walls and floor and when I saw what was in the room I did speak to the girls.
"That is a big pile of crap." I say just before Celestia shoots the pile of poo as big as her with her magic making it disappear to someplace else.
(In the Badlands.)
"I told you but would you listen? Nooooooo Mr. I can buy lots of land for cheap and get a large farm faster." Complained an earth pony mare as she sat in the shade of her new porch and watched her husband work the land.
"Well maybe we could have afforded that nice chunk of land by the mountains if you didn't spend so many bits on those useless dresses and bobbles you like to wear around. Besides I can make this work. I just need some fertilizer to spread around." Her husband retorted.
"Fertilizer? Where are you going to get that out here? And don't try to pin this on me. I hardly spent any bits on those things, you just can't admit you lost them." She countered getting an eye roll from her husband. "Don't roll your eyes at me, it's the truth! If I'm lying may Celestia strike me down where I stand!" Just as the words left her mouth the air was filled with a golden glow of power just like the two had seen princess Celestia use during the Summer Sun celebration. Their moment of wonder was short lived as a massive pile of dung fell right on top of the mare with a splat. The air was filled with silence for a moment until the pile of filth slushed around for a moment and the mare quickly dug her way out and plopped onto the ground with a look of horror at what just happened before jumping up and running over to the water pump to wash herself.
"I think that proved me right!" Her husband called out to her before putting his hooves together in a praying like fashion and looking to the sky. "And thank you for the fertilizer." He said as he went to go get his shovel to spread the blessing from above to help his fields grow.
(Back at the palace.)
Celestia blinked in confusion. "That's strange, after sending the mess to an empty wasteland I could have sworn I was thanked." She said. I was about to ask her what even left that mess when a tremendous force pushed me onto my back against the ground and something warm, wet and soft landed on top of me, covering most of my body before moving upwards then moved back and was instantly replaced with another and another. I made the mistake of opening my mouth to shout but was disturbed as a thick, warm slime entered my mouth. Using telekinesis I pushed my assailant off of me and began spitting up a storm and used a portal to summon water to wash my mouth out with.
"She likes you." Celestia said teasingly. "A few years back Cerberus was retired after all his years of service and his youngest pup was trained to be his successor. This pup was part of the same litter." She explained which caused me to look up at the giant three headed dog that had just gave me her kisses. Aside from the fact that she was a very slobbery dog I could now see that she looked like a three headed Rottweiler pup.
"PUPPY!" I shout happily as I jump up and hug her chest before happily scratching it.
"Does this mean you'll stop giving us the silent treatment?" Celestia asked but was soon surprised when she was lifted up in a magical field and tossed across the room.
"Fetch!" I called out. Celestia was quickly able to spread her wings and slow down before her eyes widened as what I had just shouted out registered in her mind and she turned around just in time to see a wide open mouth coming at her before everything got dark and slimy.
"Good girl!" I say excitedly as my new puppy came bounding back with Celestia screaming something from inside the pup's middle mouth which was moving with her struggles.
“Good girl! Now drop her.” I order but as she was lowering her middle head to spit Celestia out Celestia had apparently gotten tired of waiting. There was a bright flash from the pups cheeks and her head jerked back in surprise as the room was filled with the sound of a powerful gulp. The puppy Cerberus's middle head had that ‘I’m in trouble’ look on her face while the left head looked surprised and I think the right head was laughing as hard as Luna was.
“Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Tell us sister! How doth it feel to be the cake?" Luna asked the pup’s stomach area in her Canterlot voice.
"I would think that you would be more concerned about your one and only sister getting eaten." Celestia shouted back.
"Thou are immortal. Thou will be fine.” Luna said dismissively. "Thou can just teleport out anyways.”
"No I can't! This breed of dog was chosen to guard the gates of Tartarus for a reason! You can't use magic to get out of their grasp!" Celestia replied.
"So powerful laxatives?" I asked.
"...Aunty. There are four ways out of here. Three mouths and one stomach to cut through. Get me out one of those ways or I will get out myself. Keep in mind that my horn is very sharp." She replied causing all three of the pup’s heads to give another gulp.
"Alright just calm down I have an idea I just need a moment to make something! Stay right where you are!" I shouted to her as I summoned some gems to me and started transmuting them into something I can use.
A few moments later.
“I think I got a bight!” I called out as I pulled on my fishing pole which I had grown to a giant size along with me. The poor dog’s middle head was gagging on the rope down her throat as I worked to pull Celestia up. With a mighty tug a slimy Celly popped out and dangled in the life saver on the other end of the line before I set her down and shrank back down to my normal size.
"Now I forgive you." I say with a smile causing her eye to twitch before she did Cadence's breathing exercises.
"Let it go, for now, you got what you wanted. " She said to herself before looking back up at me. "I figured you would like her." She said as I conjured up a giant frisbee and let it fly with my magic for my new puppy to chase. "Now that we're back on speaking terms there are some things we must discuss."
"I'm listening." I say as I throw the Frisbee again.
"Well, let's start with your new duties as the princess. Each princess must take charge of their own domain and deal with the subjects that dwell within and some things have popped up that you need to take care of.” She said as she placed a scroll in my paw which I had to shake a few times to get some of the drool off.
“Alright I can do this.” I say as I look it over getting a nod from Celestia.
"Another problem is when you take court we have noticed that you have been turning several of the noble's tricks around on them in ironic or poetic ways and though certainly entertaining I want you to stop, at least for now. Now is not the time to be getting the nobles riled up. And that includes whatever you're doing to make some strange lying voice talk bad about them as well. When they try, just say no."
"Morgan Freeman doesn't lie. Just so you know your mother commissioned that quill for the reason it's being used now. Every time somepony wanted bits from her she would make them sign their names on a piece of paper first before questioning them on why they wanted it. Morgan Freeman will narrate everything honestly about everything the Quill's user does for four days including lie. If they don't face consequences they won't learn. I had to tan your hide a few times when you got out of line and you turned out fine." I say and laugh a little when she sits down at the mention of spankings. "Don't act that way or others will think I abused you." I tease.
"Well you certainly left an impression… in more ways than one." Celestia said before her nose scrunched up as she got a look of concentration in her eyes. "Wait... they can't all be true. I've heard the voice and some of the things he said are too bizarre to be real."
"Morgan Freeman can't lie. That's how the curse works." I insist causing Celestia's face to turn the pink color of her toy back on earth like she always does when she's embarrassed.
"And he narrates everything?" She asked when she goes back to white, earning a sinister smile from me.
Elsewhere in Canterlot.
He smiles darkly as he pulls on the wheel which pulls the chain causing the mare to scream with the sounds of cracking bones resonated through the chamber.
"Don't worry my dear, The pain won't last long." Greedy said as he pulled out a nightmarish device with three drills that spun and grinded together as sparks of electricity came up through the-
"You know what, I can't do this. It's just too weird." The mare said in annoyance.
"But honey bun I thought you liked weird." Greedy Hooves said to the mare with a frown.
"Not when ponies can see it or hear about it. That stupid voice won't shut up and I don't want the servants gossiping about anything they hear him say. Until this thing wears off you’re sleeping in the guest room." The mare said in annoyance.
"But honey bun, would it be so bad just to sleep together if we don't do anything?" Greedy Hooves asked despite agreeing with his lover. He was trying to convince her that it would be ok for him to sleep where he is because he was too embarrassed to admit that the gears had jammed and he was now stuck.
"..."
"..."
"Honey, what are you doing with that crowbar?" He asked nervously as he watches the mare pull the tool from under the bed.
"Just helping you get unstuck dear." She said in a sweet tone.
The bed chamber was filled with a new kind of screaming and the sound of twisting metal and the working of a clockwork machine breaking resonates off the walls.
"Oh shut up!" The mare shouts out before the noise stops and the sound of hooves clopping towards the door caused the entire staff to quickly sneak away before they were caught and a unicorn stallion limped out of the room before the door closed behind him. He limped down the hall and entered the guest room and decided he was tired and needed some sleep but went to the bathroom first.
Harder and harder he grunted under the pressure as the thought of who might hear the voice narrating his every action gave him yet another kind of performance anxiety.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He screams in frustration.
Back in the storage room under the palace.
"Everything." I say with emphasis causing her to just barely contain a snort at all the possibilities.
"Well that just means that it's more important that you stop." She said with a tone of finality.
"You let those nobles get away with too much." I tell her.
"I let you get away with too much." She replies with a smile before cringing as a glob of what I think was once dog food rolled down from the top of her head and onto her muzzle. “Now if you’ll excuse me I am in desperate need of a shower or ten.” She said as she turned around and spread her wings to take flight towards the stairs but unfortunately for her the pup was still in the mood to play fetch. "Ahh!" She cried out before my happy puppy bounded back over to me and opened the mouth of her left head and let Celestia fall out with a kiddie pool's worth of drool. "Not one word." She said in a warning tone before teleporting away as Luna fell to the floor laughing.
"I'm going to name you Luna. That's a good dog name." I say as I walk over and start scratching the pup's side. This got pony Luna to stop laughing.
"Thou shall not name thy slobbery pooch after us!" She demanded.
"Oh fine, if you're going to be a big baby about it I shall name her Sasha! You like that girl? You like the name Sasha? Who's my good puppy? Roll over. Good girl!" I say in baby talk as I jump up on her belly to give her a tummy scratch.
"Well as sweet as this is we should be going now and thou should tend to thy puppy and prepare her a place in thy dungeon." She said as she walked up next to the dog.
"Wait, before you go I have something to say." I tell her causing her to freeze in place and look up at me questioningly.
"What?" She asked.
"...Roll over!" I shout out as I jump off the pup as she rolls over and Luna gives a surprised shout. I walk around Sasha and lean down to the blue muzzle sticking out from under Sasha's tummy. "And now I forgive you too." I say with a smile as Luna groans in annoyance and with a blue flash teleports a few feet to her left and got up.
"For that thou can expect the rubber ducky nightmare tonight." Luna said causing me to give a nervous gulp as she teleported away. My feeling of dread was interrupted however by a large wet nose as one of Sasha's heads bumped me and gave me a sad look.
"Awww, I'm ok Sasha. Here let's play some more." I say as I once again lift the frisbee with my magic causing Sasha to get happy again as her three heads pant and her tail wags as she lowers her front half in that way dogs do when they're ready to play and I let it fly as I give a mental command to my imps to dig out a very large room for my new pet to live in.
Later in the dungeon.
A few of my minions watched from the doorway in curiosity as the imps dug out the largest room yet and they wanted to see what it was. The strange part is that the imps didn't just give it a very high ceiling and made it far wider than anything they could think of using it as practical space. But they also dug down deeply so that it had a pit where the floor should be and now there is a portal on the ceiling with a lot of dirt coming out to fill the hole and the imps are just spreading it around. When the room was done I created a large portal and brought Sasha to her new home which now has lots of room for her to run around and play and soft dirt to dig in.
"Cerberus!?" Trixie shouted in shock from the doorway.
"No this is my new puppy Sasha. She's one of Cerberus's pups." I correct her.
"That's just a puppy!?" Trixie shouts in shock before getting a sick look on her face. "Trixie is having a very unhappy flashback."
"Don't be that way, come say hi." I say as I waved them over. Only my bodyguards, Table Top the Corpse Collector, Trixie and Vinyl did so while the others decided to leave. "Go ahead and pet-" I began to say before I felt a strange tugging. Is that a summons? I never felt one like that before but I've never gotten one without hearing the summoner's call "I think I'm getting a call from a displaced. Swift, Unyielding, Table, you'll be my escort to see what's going on and I'll decide on who else to call in from their." I instruct as I open a portal for us to go through. After the portal closes the two remaining ponies looked up at the giant three headed puppy they had just been left alone with.
"Um...good dog?" Trixie said nervously.
We cut to a empty room with white walls before Pinkie Pie comes on to the screen.
"Hi every po- human! We're sorry but the guy we did the crossover that this spot was supposed to be linked to deleted all of his chapters. Now we did look through old Docs but we only found the next crossover but not this first one. So I was asked to fill in the spot here so nohuman gets confused later on." At this Pinkie pulls a short wall out of nowhere and dives behind it. Shortly after two sock puppets pop up from behind the wall. Both had paper wings glued to their backs and the tips of pencils glued over the mouths as beaks.
"Bla bla bla the force, bla bla bla dark side." One of the puppets said to the other. "Oh look! This thingy fells like a deep and overwhelming pit of darkness... I'm gona poke it with a stick!"
"Woowoowoowoo!" Went the sound effects. After which new sock puppets entered the stage.
"Ewww! What's that smell!" The puppet with whiskers asked.
"We're made from Rainbow Dash's workout socks. She is embarrassed by them so she never takes them out of her room to wash them." The griffin puppet answered. "Now, bla bla dark side bla."
"Bla bla necromancy bla." The whiskered puppet replied.
"BLA!? Bla bla disturbing the dead bla!?" The griffin puppet exclaimed.
"Bla bla corpse puppets bla." whiskered puppet replied.
"Blaaa." The griffin pupped gave an excepting nod.
"One moment, my pet dog is trying to eat my pet Trixie." Whiskered puppet said before sinking below the wall and returning with a wet sock wearing a paper witch's hat.
"Why does the great and powerful Trixie get made from the freshly used sock?!" The new puppet demanded.
"Because you were in a dog's mouth and that sock was already wet." Whisker puppet answered.
"Bla bla bla, talking bla."
Bla bla bla world conquest bla."
"Bla bla?"
"Bla."
"Time to go home bla!" The whiskered fox exclaimed before all of the sock puppets sunk below the wall and Pinkie pupped back up.
"And that's how it all happened! Now back to your fanfiction! Shoo, shoo."
A portal opened up in a grassy area surrounded by trees with a rainbow overhead and I and my minions rose up out of it.
"Trixie didn't like him" Trixie said with a frown.
"He was a little extreme wasn't he." I said.
"He was talking about global conquest for him and his changeling friend. He even monolauged. He was the most disturbing individual Trixie had ever been in the same room with."
"Yes but we don't know enough to assume anything. We only got his side and you can't always judge by general behavior but by action. With him we're in a wait and see situation. From what I recall of the force it doesn't work exactly the same way as magic in our world. The dark side isn't in itself corrupting anymore than the light side. It's just easier and it's the lack of effort to get the power that causes corruption. It’s for that reason that I worked hard to hone my power. And why every day I take some time to think about those I've seen who were corrupted by power, dark or otherwise. I think of all the horrible things they've done and I tell myself that's not going to be me. I'm not going to become that. I urge you to do the same." I tell her getting a small nod from her. I give her a smile though. "I am proud of you though. You looked temptation in the eye and stood your ground." I tell her as I give her a pat on the back and she smiles up at me.
"Where are we anyways? I don't recognise any of the flora around us. Are we on the wrong continent? Or did I overshoot our world?" I ask as I look around.
"Hi!" A friendly sounding voice called out as a strange looking pony came running up to us from the woods. "Hello new friends! My name is Rose Glider. Want to come to my tea party? It will be by the lake where the sea ponies sing shoo be doo!" She asked in a way to happy voice.
"What Trixie said about him being the most disturbing individual Trixie had ever seen...Trixie takes it back." Trixie said as she gets behind me.
"You talk silly." The pony giggled.
"Ok we're either on the grounds of a funny farm or this pony has been into the wrong kinds of plants." I say as I give her a strange look.
"Plants? I love plants! I have a garden that grows magical flowers." She said as her eyes and smile grows wider.
"Well that was a short lived mystery." I say with a deadpan.
"Oh, I know let's go to the spa and get makeovers! Your tall friend looks like she needs one with that cracked skin." Rose said as she looked up at Table Top which caused him to be torn between being confused at her reaction at seeing such a large undead and angry that she somehow thought he was a mare.
"And maybe you could meet our human friend Megan and maybe she can show you her locket that holds the magical rainbow-"
"Ok definitely overshot let's try again." I say interrupting her as I create a portal that all of my minions quickly jumped into.
Next Chapter: The Heated is on! (Edited) Estimated time remaining: 13 Hours, 6 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
I have bad news, good news and great news. The bad news is I'm sick. (Sniffles)
The good news is it's why you got this chapter this quickly because I had nothing better to do. I actually created another chapter but deleted it and started over because I didn't like how it turned out, only keeping the puppy part. The great news is FANART! Yes I got a PM from an artist that told me they were making fanart of Rin and you know it's going to be the new picture on the story.
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This chapter was edited because after some thought I decided that creating a separate war might be spreading it out a bit far and thinking themselves the heroes probably wouldn't try and get outsiders involved but would recruit fresh troops instead.