Moving quietly through the shadows the team of rogues homed in on their target. They had to be careful because the owner of the store was using it as a hiding place from the sex crazed mares outside. Waiting for the paranoid pony to turn his head before flying across the area until they got to the shelf they were looking for. Moving to the back of the glass case they looked up at the giant (To them) black and red amulet that looked like an angry alicorn and had a slightly glowing red gem in the center.

The leader of the group nodded and one of the others took out a small container which he opened and spread in a circle on the glass big enough for the amulet to fit through. While he was doing this another had some play dough which he put onto the tip of his hooves and pressed against the glass in the middle of the circle while the substance bubbled. The group waited there for a moment until the glass moved and the play dough breezie pulled it back as some others quickly moved to help him put it down quietly.

“You sure this will work boss?” One of the rogues asked.

“It’s just a theory. That’s why we're testing it on something for the boss. If it doesn’t work we at least get some brownie points. Besides it works for all the stuff we carry for our jobs so why not what we take?” The leader answered as they moved in and surrounded the amulet. “Alright left with your legs on three. One, two, three!” With strained grunts the team lifted with all their strength.

“So...heavy!” One of them wheezed.

“Suck it up. Once we get it out of the case it will be officially stolen. So move!” The leader grunted through the strain as they slowly carried the amulet through the hole they made in the glass. “Almost, there. Hey boss! We need a pick up! We got you a present!” After a short moment and the distressing sound of giant hooves coming their way the team and their prize disappeared.

I drop the breezies in front of me along with the Alicorn Amulet. I blink in surprise at the dark artifact that they brought with them.

"Thought you would like this boss. It's a powerful and dangerous dark artifact some guy was trying to sell in his shop. Figured it was right up your alley!" The lead breezie shouted up to me.

“I see. Good job. But you know I’ll need all the info on this guy right?” I asked them getting several tiny nods before they started looking around the dark, cold place we’re in before looking down at the squishy surface they’re standing on.

"Ummm... Boss... What are we standing on?" The leader asked as I picked up my prize and examined it. Remembering Doom’s question on if the magic stealing spell was limited to living things I give it a try and open my mouth wide and started pulling. I’m pleased to see the dark power leave the amulet and fly into my mouth so I could nom it.

“At the moment you are standing on the stomach.” I answer as I send the amulet away to my room. “The thick slimy vine looking things are intestines and I’m using the pancreas as a seat cushion while we talk.” I answer causing the team to look sick. “You see I’m sick of my flesh golems falling so easily. They’re strong enough to get the enemy to focus on them over the skeletons but not tough enough to last long when they are the center of attention on the battlefield. So I’m using much bigger animals to create tankier flesh golems and you caught me working.”

"Oh, ok. Can you open the door for us then? We... really don't want to be in here." One of my minions asked with a sickly green face.

“The exit is the cut over there.That’s how I got in. But if you want I can just use the hand to send you to your bird house.” I say with a smile.

"Yes please. But if that's how you got in then what's the door for?" Another breezie asked while pointing behind me. I turn around and am surprised to see that there is indeed a door there. A rather fancy door too, made of a dark mahogany and also oddly had three door levers at varying heights from normal height down. Most notable however was the large bronze knocker that was engraved with Celtic boars that if the ring of the knocker was level, would be facing widdershins.

“I didn’t put that there.” I say as I move over to it and look it over. I try to move it and it doesn't budge, like it was fixed to it’s current point. I try to open it but it’s locked on all three levers. Tilting my head as I look it up and down I shrug and give the door a few good knocks with the knocker to see what would happen.

“Oh bother, coming.” I blinked at the sound of a sophisticated Braytish-accented male voice, and soon the door opened inward without a sound to reveal a human-like golem of impressive design wearing a full butler’s attire. “Apologies. Ever since Lord Bronze got a rather troublesome power boost, I’ve been unable to prevent the front door from errantly appearing in random universes. I apologize if the Main Doorway has caused you distress in any form.” The golem then turned to the side and looked inside what seemed to be an opulent manor of marble. “Sir, a potential Displaced has knocked on our front door.”

“Hm...wha? Who’sit?” A sleepy-sounding male voice of a deep tenor echoed out from the depths of the manor in an impressive boom, that seemed accidental. Guy must have a naturally loud voice.

“Might I ask your name mum? Lord Bronze isn’t really all there in the head as of late, and we’re a bit cautious concerning who he associates with at the moment. At least regarding to their ability to withstand his ability to ignore most of the laws of physics on accident.”

“My name is Rin. Dungeon Keeper Displaced.” I succinctly provided, no need to get fancy with unknown entities.

“Is it Filly-Scouts? I want coco-nutties!” The drowsy voice commented. Must obviously be the butler’s ‘Lord Bronze’.

“Sir, please remember that our world is currently going through the various heat cycles, so you decided to shack up here to avoid accidentally fusing into one of your marefriends when they try to pounce you. As such, obviously, the Filly-Scouts aren’t likely operating at this time, with their overseers all in a rut or hiding.” The butler droned in obvious irritation.

“Oh yea…okay, whatevs, let ‘em in.” The tired voice stated, getting the golem to open the door fully and to bow slightly. “C’mon in. Mind my sleepiness. Still recovering from two months without sleep and this place not letting me sleep either.”

“Thank you.” I say as I pull some cleaning water from outside the body and lift myself off of the organs I’m standing on with my magic and quickly wash myself off and squeeze dry myself. Once I’m done I poof up into a ball of fluff and float through the door and crawl into the closet to hide as the sound of the front door being smashed open fills the air. I cry as I hear the sounds of my home being torn apart as I hug my children close to me. I scream as the door flies open and a man points a shotgun at us. I lay bleeding on the street from the knife wound as the man that stabbed me ran off with my backpack. As I lay there bleeding out I run as fast as I can but I can feel the intense heat behind me from the deafening explosion before it rips through me so fast I can see my flesh disintegrated leaving only bones before I lay there in pain as I can taste the blood in my mouth from my gums and the vomit I couldn't keep down.

My eyes shoot open as I jump up from the floor I was laying on. I was in the icey room where I was working on the new flesh golem. Around me was trainer Trixie, Mr. Freeze and Wraith. I can also see that the door had been moved to outside of the body and that stone golem was standing at the door watching.

“What the hell!? I’ve never sensed so many ghosts before!” I shout out before my eyes narrow and I summon up some gems to create a giant jar which I quickly enchant with the Liquid Pain spell.

“Are you ok?” Trainer Trixie asked.

“No I’m not! That place is full of new ghosts that died suddenly or painfully and I just experienced their last moments and all of their pain and despair! It was horrible! What the hell happened to make so many ghosts!” I demanded as I willed several imps to come to me.

“Oh, nothing special. Just a total atomic annihilation event caused entirely by paranoia and panic. Considering Sir Bronze has several major cities of his dead world now drifting in his Nexus, you likely only felt a good portion of the poor souls he failed to save. Apologies for the unexpected unpleasantness. Now then, please look after Lord Bronze for a while as I look around the multiverse for any exorcism services capable of cleansing a planet-sized genocide worth of ghosts.” The golem stated before he closed the door.

“But I-” I started to say before I was interrupted.

“Wow! I had NO idea just how haunted Nexus had gotten! So sorry ‘bout that lady, I’d say I’ll get it taken care of, but me and spirit things don’t mix well-hey imps! So cute!” I quickly turned to see the source of the voice and blinked at the sight of an 8 foot tall black thestral alicorn stallion with silver shaggy hair and swirly pale blue/dark blue eyes without pupils hugging one of my imps. “They’re like big-eyed lanky green babies! Oh hey! Another Trixie! Hi Trixie! My Trixie is homosexual. Try hooking up with Twilight. My Twilight really enjoys her relationship-WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY~?!” The stallion suddenly sang out and equally suddenly held up a fluffy orange fox that keened adorably.

“... Look I need to… And he’s gone.” I say upon witnessing the stallion who clearly had to be Bronze suddenly vanish as if he had never been there, but left the fox that quickly ran off.

“I am everywhere, yet nowhere~! I am nothing, yet everything~! I think, therefore I am~! I’m currently the floor you're standing on. Your paws are so soft!” Bronze’s voice echoed around and then centered under me, getting me to jump off the floor a few feet away to see a 2-dimensional Bronze seeming to be pressing his face into the ‘screen’ of the floor. “Nice floor! The molecular density is extremely uniform!”

“... Okay… Space magic?” I asked Bronze as he rapidly began swirling backwards around the room on the floor, making the others instinctively jump out of the way as he seemed to be shrinking. Well except for Mr. Freeze. His bulky metal body made him too slow to get out of the way.

“Yep, but just feeling a little fluuuuuuuuush~!” Bronze cheesed in an incredibly accurate James Woods voice as he vanished in the center of the floor.

“Please stop that. Look I can’t wait for your butler I’m going to start the exorcism now. It is my duty as a powerful necromancer to help those souls now! So please stay still and let me work.” I say as me and my imps walked into the mansion. I was ready for them this time so I was able to keep my head clear and the enchanted jar for liquid pain started filling up at a surprising pace. I guess it’s to be expected with so many ghosts channeling their pain into me.

“Ah, very good, I was about to come retrieve you beings my search yielded that you were the most suitable for the task at hand within the next hundred universes from this one.” The golem butler stated as he seamlessly warped around without any indication of a focus to do so, and a balcony appeared next to the wall of windows all viewing different universes, which he opened to reveal the swirling black and purple void that was the ‘nexus’ so to speak, with large islands of landmass floating around without any seeming order, and a heatless sun lighting everything.

“Mind Vegas, Master has fond love of his hometown and he damaged it enough throwing skyscrapers around in a recent spat.” As he said such, the balcony was suddenly a bridge onto a random street.

“Some glass might be broken as a result of such a large exorcism.” I say as I summon up some paint and sent a mental command to my imps to start drawing a giant ritual circle on the ground in the middle of the street. “It will help if we had items symbolizing all of the afterlives the people of this world believed in. It will help guide the souls that want to move on. Think you can use that space magic to get me some. I don’t do space magic except for my hand.”

A giant pile of various religious items dumped out of the air off to the side. “That should cover the basis of the majority of our former world’s religions. However, this was the City of Sin mum. You may find there aren’t many religious ghosts here. Also, you are clearly a necromancer from my sources. Would you be willing to take a world’s worth of corpses off our hands? We really have no use for dead and rotting flesh. Even if Master Bronze could fuse it into his own mass for whatever reason, I’d rather not tempt him with the idea.”

“It helps regardless. Even if the ghost didn’t believe, if it is something they recognize as what they have been told Heaven looks like it will help guide them. As for the bodies...sure. Especially the mummies. I need them to make ...well, mummies. And if you have any blood diamonds I would gladly trade you twice the normal kind and I need a lot of blood diamonds for this one spell. With the world I live in being as peaceful as it is those are impossible to get there.” I say as I place the symbols of the afterlife around the circle.

“Oh, please. Take the nasty things.” The butler said as a giant pile of diamonds began pouring from a hole in the air a bit away. “Ponies rightfully want nothing to do with the things, they sense the animosity in them.” The golem blinked, and sighed. “Oh dear...you have a...present, waiting for you back in your world now.” The butler then frowned slightly before bowing. “Apologies, I had forgotten to introduce myself. I am Jeeves. Master Bronze Brave’s proxy.”

“Umm...okay. Thank you. But I’m still giving you normal replacement gems. Even if you don’t care about wealth at least you will have them to help others. And it’s a pleasure Jeeves.” I say as I look back at the giant jar I was carrying that is now almost full of liquid pain. I can’t even lift it with my tails anymore. “With all the liquid pain I got from the suffering ghosts I can super charge this to get a lot in one go. How many portals to the other cities can you create connecting to this one at once?” I ask.

“All of them, of course. The Nexus is perhaps the most malleable dimension within the next several thousand dimensions. Perks of it being the personal plane of an alicorn of space.” Jeeves gestured with his hand to point out shimmering air in a dome all around us. “This contained bubble is surrounded on all sides by the most central region of each city floating in the Nexus. I’ve had a few more notable locations such as the Catacombs of Paris and other such places included in case of a more entrenched haunting.”

“Okay. Here goes nothing.” I say as I start channeling as much of my dark magic as I can dish out at once while augmenting the spell by feeding the darkness liquid pain which was overflowing. “I've never done this on such a large scale before. This should be quite the sight.”

After saying that I let it all out and a blast of dark magic flew out in all directions and didn’t appear to stop. Shortly after the dark wave passed deafening wails could be heard as the wandering monochrome ghosts became visible for all to see. Some were in a crowd screaming at us. Some wandered aimlessly. And some were stuck in a loop reliving the moments of their deaths again and again seemingly unaware that they were dead. But most notable were the great number of them all pointing at Jeeves, their wordless screams angry, accusing, hateful.

“They blame you for their deaths. Those ones are already in the making of becoming natural undeads.” I say as I look around and begin the second part of the ritual. “Something is wrong though. It looks like someone is helping them along on that. And pushing them to become a particular kind of undead… Feels like… wendigos?” I say as I try to finish the spell.

“Oh dear...Asphodel, the Winter Witch’s escape from the Far Frozen was only two-odd months ago. Then again I wouldn’t be surprised if the sheer hatred Master Bronze was emitting during his sudden battle with our guest hadn’t let some of her windigoes in to start these poor spirits on the way to becoming wendigos. No wonder the Master has been even more out of sorts than usual.” Jeeves commented. “As for them accusing me. They’re rather accusing my principal. He tried, truly. But even with his power he could only save a few hundred thousand before the bombs claimed the rest.”

“Maybe that door showing up wasn’t random. What are the odds it would find me now. If this was allowed to continue another week or two… The sheer number of wendigos could overwhelm any country with raw numbers.” I say as I summon a bell and start ringing it. “Now comes the easy part.”

“Quite high actually. Not even I understand Nexus, it always behaved oddly, and intuitively. Sometimes we believe it to be aware in it’s own way. As for them assaulting anything, that would likely be Asphodel’s plan. She desire’s one thing; the suffering of all life.” Jeeves informed as he watched.

Once I rang the bell for the thirteenth time a massive glowing white circle appeared over the ritual circle and drew the attention of all of the ghosts. Including the ones that were trapped in a loop. The angry specters screamed even louder in protest as the calmer ones rushed into the light. This was followed shortly by a beautiful sight as waves of ghosts came rushing in through all of the nearly-unseen portals created by Jeeves like a glowing waterfall creating a dazzling show of lights. The cold hate in the air was momentarily overpowered by the joy of the Doorway to freedom that had just opened up for them.

“Wow. So many ghosts moving on at once is quite a sight.” I say as I watch.

“Yes, good. Glad to be rid of the poor things. They were disturbing the Master so much he wasn’t getting rest outside of Nexus either.” Jeeves commented coldly but with a tone of approval as he looked idly around. “Hm, some weak points in the barrier, might be how Asphodel’s agents even slipped in and out. I’d best take care of them now that the ghosts aren’t mucking things up.”

“You do that but I’m not done. That was a way for the willing ghosts to drop their hate and leave willingly. There are some stubbornly clinging to this place. Not enough to be dangerous on their own but once they turn it’s still a small army.” I say as I summon some chance and a few onyx gems. “Time to apply some force. Please keep this place connected to the other cities if you can.”

“Of course.” Jeeves said, vanishing in the blink of an eye, but the dome of shimmering air remained around me. Concentrating I use up some more liquid pain and the onyx gems to power the spell. The area was filled with screams of hate and protest as ethereal chains shot out in all directions. Once the chains stopped they started to slowly reel themselves in and one after another, angry ghosts were dragged in giving off a wide variety of profanities. Some of them were even light blue and giving off intense cold. Showing that they were close to turning. Once the last chain vanished taking the last ghost to their halls of judgment the spell ended and everything went quiet.

“There done.” I say in an exhausted tone before looking at the trashed city. “Alright imps let’s do something else nice. Put those mad fixing skills to work and start repairing this place. With the speed you work it should take no more than five hours to get this one city back into mint condition.” I say and my imps rush off to start repairing the buildings. Once they get to work I take the time to quickly clean up the ritual site. Don’t want some amateur necromancer trying such an advanced spell. “There. I guess I should go check up on my guest now.” I say as I send my blood diamonds and the still half full jar of liquid pain to my personal vault before dumping the normal gems in their place and creating a portal back home.

“-In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral, I am the very model of a modern major-general~!” I walked into the final line of what seemed to be a musical sung entirely by Bronze on a stage. With several not-Bronze golems of various materials singing backup chorus in a blend of male and female voices as a band of ghost musicians supplied the music. Those...aren't my ghosts… I thought to myself at the sight. But my attention was drawn away from the musical to the feeling that my dungeon had been breached! Closing my eyes I focus on the feeling and see the top half of an Egyptian pyramid sticking out of the floor of one of the unused rooms on the lowest section. The rest of the structure was underneath the bedrock floor which stopped me from going any lower.

Next to what of the pyramid that was sticking out of the ground were several large chests. I could already feel the space magic woven into each chest and I could feel the countless bodies in each one. Looking closer I saw that each chest had labels for families of species and ages and genders. Well I guess he would have needed to make those chests. There is no way all the dead bodies of an entire planet were going to fit in my dungeon despite how big it is. At least I won’t be suffering a shortage of disposable troops any time soon. Casting the create imp spell in that room because all my high level ones were fixing Vegas I let the new imp get to work claiming the pyramid inside and out.

Having done that I refocus on the room I’m in and look around at the various minions and cranky babies that should be having nap time right now. Frowning I turn to one of my changelings.

“Why haven't you taken them back to the play room to lay them down for their nap?” I asked in an annoyed tone.

“We’ve tried! Every time we carry some of the babies out through one Doorway we come back in through another!” The changeling replied in a slightly panicked voice.

“SLEEP IS FOR THE WEAK!” Bronze screamed melodramatically from a corner of the room as he writhed about on the floor, smacking his face into the stone and it splashing into it like the rock was water. “Stay awake~! The nightmares will get you!” I just give a tired sigh at his rants and create a portal in the floor leading to the play room. “Beware the Tantabus!”

“Don’t worry I’ve already taken care of the bad nightmares.” I say to him before focusing on a song and letting the magic of this world play the music. As I sing the grumpy babies start to settle down and nod off as they are carefully lifted in my magic and taken through the portal.

“Umm...is that safe?” A nervous changeling asked.

“Don’t worry my portals aren't space magic. They’re shadow magic. That’s why they look like a bottomless pit. The hole is actually quite shallow. It just looks like that because of the concentration of darkness that allows others to pass through the shadow realm and out somewhere else. And space magic no matter how much power you put into it can not affect shadow magic because shadows have no mass. Even the shadow realm which is an infinite black void with glowing purple fog technically has no space. It’s why space magic can’t be used to enter the shadow realm. Think of it like a giant game of rock paper scissors. No matter how powerful some kinds of magic can be there is always another that can one, trunk it, two, react negatively to it or three, cancel each other out.” I explain.

“Basically what she said. No matter how hard I might try I can’t affect shadows that have no mass unlike Dox’s denser kinds of it. But Light and everything else? I can manipulate it like a fine-tuned piano.” Bronze whispered from next to the changeling, getting her to jolt and barely avoid yelping. “I’mma get some grub at the Hayburger, back in a second.” And he’s gone.

“Anyways it’s safe so just go tend to the children.” I tell the changeling who nods and follows the babies through the portal.

“Wait.” Trainer Trixie said aloud. “You don’t think he went to this world's hay burger do you? The ponies of this world are still going through their heat cycle. Not only is nothing open he will be attacked as soon as he gets there.”

“Got grub.” Bronze startled trainer Trixie as he suddenly reappeared next to her, levitating dozens of burgers, fry buckets, and milkshakes in the air around him. “The mares here are so friendly. I mean, they kept trying to hug me so I had to meld through them. Chocolate shake?” Bronze offered as he levitated one of the said drinks towards trainer Trixie.

“...I hope you left payment for those. I know they weren't open today.” I say as I take the offered shake. “And they wanted a lot more than a hug.”

“They weren’t? But mares were eating and the clerk rang me up, but only after they all tried hugging me several times and got frustrated for some reason after passing through me a few times. Then the cashier just obviously wanted me gone for whatever reason.” Bronze said as he sipped on a vanilla shake. “Even let me pay extra for the glasses of the shakes.”

“It’s heat season here. All businesses are closed for woopy time.” I explain to him.

Bronze blinked, and looked at his food in confusion. “Then...where did I buy this food…?” I open my mouth to reply but was distracted when trainer Trixie fell to the floor and started snoring. Blinking a few times I lift the shake up to my nose and took a few sniffs.

“Drugged. Looks like they set a trap hoping to knock you out and have their way with you.” I say as I send the shake to the trash.

“Oh….” Bronze stood still in contemplation for a moment, and shrugged, sipping more shake. “I’m immune to sedatives and tranquilizers, even before my ascension or even before I stopped being human.” Bronze lifted a bun off a hayburger, revealing some powder that he blew off and proceeded to eat the burger anyway. “Made medicating for insomnia or hospital stays a bitch. Especially since they have the opposite effect and wake me up.”

“Too bad. You look like you could really use a good nap. I already took care of the angry ghosts that were tormenting you. It’s safe now.” I say to him. How could a normal humane be immune to sedatives and tranquilizers? At those thoughts I felt foreign tissue enter my brain and immediately rejected it and killed it before forcing it out.

“By being a freak.” Bronze commented, making me blink at what he was saying. “I know what you were thinking, everyone thinks it when I tell them. I don’t know why, I just am.” He finished the burger and proceeded to sip his shake again. “Also, nice protection spells. Most beings wouldn’t even be able to detect me doing something to their bodies. Shame, that little lobe splice would’ve increased your motor functions.”

“Manipulation of flesh and bones are a big part of necromancy. And after years of being in politics I’ve learned to detect when someone tried to put something in me as well as how to get rid of it. Granted it’s normally poison. Regardless please don’t try and put anything else in me. I’ll just kill and or flush it from my body.” I say while giving him an annoyed look.

“Aw, you killed a piece of my brain. How mean~.” Bronze joked as he suddenly got next to me and pulled me into a hug. “You’re like family now!”

“Great. Once the heat’s over I’ll tell my nieces Celestia and Luna we just added to the family tree.” I say flatly.

“*PINKIE LE GASP~* You’re the aunt of this world’s versions of my aunt and mom?! You’re essentially my Grauntie!” Bronze gushed as he squeezed me with surprising strength into the hug. “I always wanted a grauntie! But they all died before I was born.” Bronze then levitated another shake in front of me but I was focused on something else.

“Ag! Can’t breath! Grauntie is a glass cannon! Stop squishing the squishy wizard!” I say as I struggled for air.

“LIFT! DO YOU EVEN?!” Bronze suddenly screamed as he warped us seamlessly into a gym somewhere, his food still present on the nearby table as he flexed his many muscles. “It is time! To pump! *clop* YOU UP!” Bronze clopped his forehooves together as the exercise junky in him took over.

My eyes widen in horror at this. Yes my magic eating built some muscle on me but only just enough where I can keep my speed and agility to dodge and out maneuver. Looking around I don’t see a single weight I could lift without magic. Seeing this I desperately cast a spell and seriously overcharged it in the name of self preservation. I am pleased to see that Bronze is not immune to sleep spells as he falls to the floor.

“Hopefully that with his exhaustion will keep him down for a while.” I say before tilting my head as I looked down at his sleeping form. Then I got an idea. An evil idea. I chuckled maniacally as I rubbed my paws together. “What kind of grauntie would I be if I didn’t give my great nephew I nice place to sleep?”

The next day.

Slowly Bronze opened his eyes as he got up from his long sleep feeling much better. He sucked on his pacifier a few times, and snorted contently as he snuggled deeper into his crib. Enjoying the soft frilly, light blue blankets. Just outside the bars on his crib was a message written in those colorful fridge magnets in the shape of letters. ‘YES THERE ARE PICTURES’.

Bronze just grinned around his pacifier, and turned over, going back to sleep, not really caring.

The next week.

“Man he must have gone a long time without sleep.” I say as I look down at the sleeping Alicorn. “I never thought that he would stay sleeping for so long that he would actually need diapers and to be fed.” I say as I lower the bottle with all the nutrients he needed which he suckled on in his sleep. “How much longer is this going to take?”

The next week.

(3rd pony POV)

Bronze yawned as he weakly opened his eyes, feeling extremely well rested, something he hadn’t experienced in months. He yawned and stretched before standing up and letting the blanket fall to the padding. He stopped however when a nasty smell reached his nose and he turned his head to look behind him and found where it was coming from. “Oh...great.” Bronze hoarsely whispered as he made the dirty diaper and it’s contents vanish somewhere never to be seen or smelled again.

Having done that Bronze looked around the large room letting him know that he had been shrunk to the size of a foal. Then his eyes fell on the magnet message from before and saw that a new message was spelled out under the old one. ‘DONT WORRY I DIDN’T CHANGE YOUR DIAPERS. YOUR MAREFRIENDS DID AFTER JEEVES BROUGHT THEM OVER’. Looking lower still he saw another message. ‘YES THEY HAVE PICTURES’.

“Aw, how sweet of her.” Bronze said earnestly, before clearing his throat, and giving a disturbingly accurate baby wail. Soon Applejack and Zecora came rushing in to see him. “Bwonze Hungwy~!”

This got them both snorting and snickering. “Good to see ya got yer rest hun. We were plum worried when that fox friend of yours told us you were in a light coma.” Applejack said as she picked the foal-sized Bronze up, and put him on her back.

“It was quite amusing how she decided to go about your care however. Nothing we would have chosen, but it worked well enough and was quite silly. We’re going to be sharing the photos she gave us with everypony.” Zecora teased, getting Bronze to snort in amusement.

“Go ahead, maybe ponies will stop giving me the royal treatment so much if I get a bit of humility out to the public.” Bronze consented. “Now then, can we get me un-shrunk so we can all go home? I’m feeling ready for some normal life after all the insanity the past few months have been. And where’s Shampoo?”

“She was here at first, but she said she couldn’t bear to see you so small and helpless or somethin’. Really she just had the biggest urge to nuzzle ya to death and was embarrassed about it.” Applejack said as she and Zecora trotted out of the room with their shrunken significant other. Soon they came across a mare in black armor with a skeletal design who was walking down the hall with a leash in her mouth attached to the neck of a deathclaw. One of those big ones from fallout 4.

“Cool~! A Deathclaw!” Bronze exclaimed as they passed. “I never thought I’d see one in real life!” The mare stopped and turned to look at Bronze before looking up to the ceiling.

“My lady the young princess is awake.” She said to thin air.

“Wait, she can hear us anywhere in her dungeon? Oh, wait! She’s a Crypt King Displaced isn’t she?! Rin! You’re so cool!” Bronze shouted up at the ceiling as a portal opened up in the ground nearby.

“Just head on in.” The knight said to the group before turning to the deathclaw. “Come on Killer. Let’s go.” She said as she led it down the hall.

“Aw~! You should’ve named him Fluffy!” Bronze shouted, getting an angry snarl from the great beast making the floor vibrate from the sonic vibration. “Oh come on bro! You have to see the beauty in it! They get killed by a big scary guy named Fluffy!”

“Maybe one of the cubs. The princess brought back other monsters when she got this one including a shapeshifter called a ditto. It’s being used to breed new ones since the princess can’t find the world this one came from. After that the ditto will be borrowed by Fluttershy so she could use it to help repopulate endangered species. That is one very happy blob.” The mare said before turning down a corner.

“...Did anypony else consider that a ditto could help boost the alicorn population?” Bronze asked as his mares went through the portal of pure darkness and came out in a palace room with Rin, Celestia, Luna and Rin’s shadow. All of them were sitting at desks going through paperwork at super speed. Because Rin was the only one that had help from her shadow she got done first before both her and her shadow laid their heads down on the same desk.

(Rin’s POV)

“I hate paperwork.” I grumbled and my shadow nodded in agreement. “And I’m a Dungeon Keeper displaced.” I say showing that I did hear what Bronze said inside My dungeon. “As for the ditto. It isn’t happening. This world doesn't need to mass produce gods because any race has the potential to ascend.” I then got up and stretched allowing my bones to pop. “I take it you’re ready to grow up?” Before Bronze could answer he was lifted off of Applejack’s back in a blue aura and pulled towards Luna who swiftly caught him and started snuggling him while giving him what to him at his size is a crushing hug.

“Nay! Not yet! We have yet to play with him while he is awake!” Luna declared.

“Yay! I get to play with an alternate universe version of my mom!” Bronze weathered the hug with glee as he hugged Luna’s neck.

“Ah swear colt, ya just keep things so interesting’.” Applejack chortled as Zecora grinned at the sight while I and my shadow double both facepaw hard at this.

“Aunty would you mind?” Luna asked me while gesturing to her remaining paperwork.

“Oh no you don’t. That’s your work and I’m sure Bronze won’t mind waiting just a short while longer. Besides you won’t have any work to do after that until sunset.” I say in an annoyed tone.

“Well can we at least use thy playroom?” Luna asked and I just summoned up a variety of toys including Bouncy the undead bouncy ball which immediately started bouncing around the room on its own getting an annoyed grunt from Celestia as she was finishing up her paperwork at superspeed.

“Hey~ it’s okay Aunt Tia. You’ll find somepony someday.” Bronze said consolingly as he warped onto her head, easily draping on her neck with his chest between her ears as he patted her brow. “My mom had me with a minotaur essentially, so who knows what darling little thing will come from whatever union you end up having? Also you have Internet now, so you can just do all your paperwork electronically.”

“NO!” I shout as I look at him with a glare. Dark magic radiating off the sides of my eyes. “Don’t you dare! No internet!” I shout causing Celestia and Luna to jump in surprise.

“Aw, but it’s magically censored to blur out information that immature or otherwise innocent people don’t know from real life yet.” Bronze pouted, making a puppy-dog pout not at me, but at Luna. “Please mom? Convince grauntie to let your world advance into the realm of gaming so she could spread awareness of her profession?”

Luna looked between me and Bronze. “We don’t know. Aunty Rin would do many things that ponies in general would consider immoral such as creating undead or placing curses on those she doesn’t like without a second thought. If she is so against this it must be bad.” Luna said with a frown.

“It’s essentially freely sharing information. The changelings in my world are already coming out of hiding because ponies are educating themselves and are more aware of other species instead of isolating themselves with doubt and fear. Also the porn. So much porn for the adults.” Bronze then beamed as a certain song started up. “The internet is really, really great~!”

“... That song was so wrong. I agree with aunty Rin I’m not exposing children to anything that could give them clop.” Celestia said with a deep frown.

“But I just said it’s magically censored.” Bronze tilted his head down at Celestia from his spot still on her head.

“It’s not the idea of the internet that I take issue with it’s what’s on it. If we get internet in this world it will need to be a blank slate with nothing from other worlds. Then we can add to it information of this world.” I say to everyone. “Besides I can assure you if our Twilight gets internet from another world she will relapse making all of Dr. Wolf’s work void.

“So just MS Dos? Kay, sure, done. You now have an empty internet server with no connection to the original. Oh, and Rin, be sure to check some of your empty rooms, had Jeeves dump some video game and computer caches in them. As for Twilight, my Twilight’s the one who made the magic conversions of the whole thing, and it’s thanks to it she got the courage to come out of the closet about her relationship with my Trixie. Also yeah...she needs to not be reading her tablet all the time whenever she’s not spending time with any of us.” Bronze shrugged. “I warned her, but she had to get a taste when she invaded my privacy and discovered pony porn on Earth’s internet somehow. No clue how she found it. Oh, and this Doctor Wolf? Bronze asked as Dr. Wolf was suddenly on Celestia’s back. “Hi Doctor Nick!”

“My Twilight will be worse than yours trust me. The first time she met another Displaced she chopped off a large chunk of his leg with a bone saw because she wanted to get a look at his insides.” I say with a deadpan.

“Wow. Yeah, my Twilight only cut off a good portion of my first Displaced’s tail for the same reason or something.” Bronze informed. “And she was exposed to the internet before canon apparently or something, I don’t know, she goes on and on about the continuity and me bucking it up just by existing.” Bronze shrugged.

“Mine was aiming for the Displaced’s chest. Autopsy style.” I say flatly. “Regardless no exposing my world’s ponies to any of the internet of earth.” I sigh before looking to Celestia and Luna. “Don’t worry I’ll protect you. Earth internet has worse knowledge than the Necronomicon!” I say summoning that very book which started looking around at everyone.

“Like how females can potentially assexually reproduce by self-cloning!” Bronze randomly informed getting perplexed looks from my girls.

“That’s not what I was talking about but sure let’s go with that.” I deadpanned as the undead book in my paws give Applejack and Zecora an evil look like a serial killer that found his next victims making the two sidestep to the furthest corner of the room from the book made from pony flesh.

“Oh hey! I’ve got one of those!” Bronze boasted as a Door opened nearby, tossing a similar thick tome also bound in flesh out before slamming shut. “Don’t know if it works though, you can have it either way. Jeeves says it irritates him.”

“FUK YER MUTHA!” The plain flesh-bound book shouted in an usually likeable Irish accent even though unlike mine it didn’t have a face or anything. Instead it spoke by opening and closing like a mouth.

“Such a kidder!” Bronze laughed. I was about to comment when Equestria’s magic kicked in and started producing music. While the music was playing red cartoonish hearts started floating up from both books as they looked at each other.

“Awwww isn’t that sweet?” Luna gushed.

“You’re worrying me Luna. First you kept that blanket the Juggernaut made from the skin he ripped off our bodies again and again and now you think that is sweet?” Celestia said as she gestures to the books.

“Wait you kept that thing?” I asked Luna while giving her a strange look.

“What? We have very soft and comfy coats.” Luna said with a shrug. “Besides say what you will about him but Juggernaut is a great seamster.”

“You preach for practicality ma! I have a badass outfit-slash-portable blanket made from the corpse of my first kill. Of course, it was a manticore, but still.” Bronze stated as he was snuggling a completely bewildered Dr. Wolf on the clean side of Celestia’s desk. “Your fur is so soft~.”

“What’s going on? How did I get here?” Dr. Wolf asked as he looks around in surprise as suddenly being in this new location without warning.

“I brought you here silly! I’m here to help you further understand the futility of life.” Bronze said with a disturbingly dark and raspy voice. “By making you my snuggle friend until mom finishes her paperwork.”

“What? No! I was in the middle of a session with Twilight! You can’t just pull me out of my office while I’m working!” Dr. Wolf yelled.

“Hi Twilight! You’ve suddenly been relocated! Tell me, how does that make you feel?” Bronze asked from Dr. Wolf’s chair as Twilight in the patient bed was also suddenly in the room, blinking at the situation as Bronze was laying on Dr. Wolf’s side as Bronze scratched Wolf’s ears.

“What? What’s going on!? Was that a teleport? No that was too smooth. It was almost like the space I was in just moved. But that level of magic is so advanced only four unicorns in all of recorded history were ever able to pull it off!” Twilight yelled as a few of her hairs popped up.

“Yes, yes. Very good. Let your mind wander, accept things as they are and simply meditate on the issue. It will come much smoother.” Bronze advised as he appeared on Twilight’s back, soothingly brushing her mane with a large comb that I recognized from Celestia’s personal bathroom. Slowly Twilight turned her head and looked at the foal sized alicorn on her back with that creepy lesson zero smile she had when she tried to seduce the CMC with her doll.

“Why….hello there.” Twilight said with hunger.

“Yes, hello there! Feel free to rip my beating heart from my chest!” Bronze hammed as he moved to the couch and easily pulled his ribcage open to reveal his internal organs as if he just pulled open a seam on his body. “No really, feel free!” Bronze then jabbed a hoof into his torso, and yanked his still-beating heart out, the way it jumped and fluxed with his pulse still as not even a drop of blood came from it was incredibly fascinating. Well, to me and Twilight at least. Without thinking Twilight summoned up a large number of very sharp looking surgical tools.

Bronze meanwhile was chowing down a whole fish almost a third the size of his body. “Go ahead girl! Get it outta your system! I’m building a new heart with this fish anyway. Consider it a gesture of Friendship.”

“What are you doing! Stop indulging her! Feeding her desire here will hurt her not help her!” Dr. Wolf shouted as he punched Bronze on the head Anime style, viciously ripping his head free of his body, spraying blood everywhere as the head flew across the room and landed with a splat on a far wall. “AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!” Dr. Wolf screamed in a panic. “I, I didn’t mean to.” He said shakily once he regained his ability to speak.

“You’ve! Killed! Me~!” Bronze suddenly hammed as his body pointed at Dr. Wolf, before seeming to melt into bubbling black sludge and sinking into the couch, leaving a beating cartoon heart in his place.

“Bronze stop breaking Twilight and her shrink.” I say in annoyance as I create a portal and drop Twilight and the doctor in. “I’ll bring you back when he’s gone!” I shouted into the hole before closing it.

“Where did you send them?” Celestia asked.

“Oh I just dumped them off in the shadow realm. He can’t get them their.” I answer with a wave of my paw.

“It’s me Bruce.” Suddenly came Morgan Freeman’s voice as a pale white Bronze about half the size of before appeared wearing a white tieless suit on Celestia’s desk.

“What?” Said a normal but still smaller Bronze wearing a plaid white and gray vest from Luna’s desk.

“I’m god.” Said the Morgan Freeman Bronze.

“BINGO! Yahtzee! Survey says! GOD! Bing-ming-ming-ming-ming!” The Bruce Bronze said before both melted and merged back into a foal-sized normal Bronze on Luna’s table who began laughing hysterically. “Their expressions! Now Twilight will be more wary of just going postal on someone at seeing the horrific results, and the good Doctor now has experience with feeling true life-destroying regret! Horrible but worthwhile character building experiences abound!”

“Wait did he just do something else to them?” Celestia asked aloud.

“No he can’t. Space magic can’t access the shadow realm nor can it even work there. It has no space.” I reply. “He was talking about what he did to them before I sent the two away.” After I said that Luna picked up the small alicorn before summoning the paddle engineered for spanking gods.

“Bad colt!” Luna chastised as she placed Bronze over her knee. “We do not torment good people! That went too far to be a prank!”

“Ha-ha-ha! That was no prank! That was me helping them! Twilight will walk away scarred, learning a valuable lesson on self-restraint, and the good Doctor is now more aware of how dangerous he is. I didn’t have to fake anything for that situation! The good Doctor really did knock my block off! Ha-ha!”

Rin! Rin get me out of here! Twilight is trying to dissect me! My eyes widen in horror as I create a portal and pull out a badly bleeding Dr. Wolf. Quickly I hit him with the heal spell to stop the blood.

“Or considering what she just saw, Twilight might actually be driven to intrigue over the good Doctor’s shocking level of physical prowess. Hm-hm. Sometimes, ponies don’t need a shrink to see how messed up they are. They need cold hard life to pour ice down their backs.” Bronze maliciously grinned, his swirling eyes spinning as his long fangs glinted. “Tell me Doctor. Did she have a joyful gleam in her eyes as she cut into you? Or did she stop smiling? Look scared? If the former...well...that mare needs more than you to help her.”

Somewhere in the city of Prance

‘Wack wack wack wack wack!’ Everypony in the city looked up in confusion while every naughty child covered their rears at the sound that they were all too familiar with that echoed off the walls.

Back in the palace.

“C’mon ma! Harder! I cut off all feeling to my body shortly before you started!” Bronze cheered the infuriated Luna on, while his marefriends were both cringing off to the side. At this I created another portal and pulled out the sobbing Twilight that was curled up in a ball before creating another portal under Luna allowing both her and Bronze to fall in before closing it.

The Shadow Realm.

“Just so you know Rin, I literally severed all my nerves from the neck down, so you’ve gotta fix that first if you want me to feel it.” Bronze informed me when he saw me follow shortly after. I just hit him with a heal spell causing his already blistered butt to burn before Luna raised the paddle once again. ‘BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!’ The explosive sound of a paddle breaking the sound barrier overpowered the sound of paddle hitting cheeks.

“YOW! WOO! AH! THANKS!” Bronze shouted with a demented grin. “I’m all kinds of screwy in the head since the Windigo invasion. Sometimes a good paddling is necessary.”

“Discorded or not, thou hadst no right to do such twisted things!” Luna roared down at the formerly adorable colt that now seemed a Discord in miniature.

“Oh, boo hoo. Did you see Twilight? Broken? You first must break some eggs to make an omelet. I’d be surprised if she ever loses control again after an event like that. And if she and the good Doctor can get past this, their Friendship will become stronger. A true friend weathers through adversity. What better adversity than both experiencing violent psychotic breaks and potentially accepting and helping each other?” Bronze asked rhetorically as the left half of his face went numb and his tongue hung out. “Oh hoy...hairs huh haralysis.”

“...Noble butler! We wish to speak to ourselves in Bronze’s world!” Luna shouted out making me facepaw.

“Luna remember why we brought him here for his spanking in the first place?” I asked Luna. Luna just looks at me questioningly. Loading, loading, done. She faced hooves. “Send us back please. But leave him here until we get back! He’s in time out!” Luna declared as she pushes him aside and lets him float there before vanishing in a shadow.

“Hon’t hurry, I’ll he right here.” Bronze assured cheerfully.

“I’m surprised she hasn’t learned how to make her own shadow portals. It would be easy with her special talent.” I say halfheartedly. “I think I’ll teach your Luna if she can’t either in case she needs to put you in time out as well.”

“Honsidering gnopogny cang congcain ngee hight how, hat’s a hood igea.” Bronze admitted.

“What filled you with so much hate anyways. All of those ghosts in your domain were on the verge of becoming wendigos. What was so bad that you would bring about the revival and creation of so many?” I asked.

Simply asking caused a tangible aura of pure hatred and angst to flow off the tiny paralyzed stallion like heat from a raging bonfire, if said bonfire was ice cold. “...HRISHTNGASH~!”

“... can you repeat that?” I ask as I focus the heal spell on his mouth.

“CHRISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS~!” Bronze screamed so hatefully and so loudly, that ice blue letters formed in the shadows.

“...Okay. I don’t get it. Why don’t you think of Halloween instead? Maybe that will calm you down. Better not tell him about the family tradition of Santa Paws.

“...Hm, hm, hm, hmm-hm-hmm, hmm~.” Bronze hummed with a smile.

“...You know I just realized Luna has no way of contacting me to let them in when I’m on this side so I’ll wait for them back home.” I say as I disappear into the shadows. Once I’m back outside I shake my head. “Who gets that worked up over Christmas!?” I cry out with tears in my eyes. “It’s one of the best times of the year!”

“In Bronze’s experience, Christmas was an example of all things wrong in his old world.” Zecora said as she and Applejack helped keep Dr. Wolf and Twilight calm as they shivered and tried not to look at each other.

“Way he tells it, his world cared nothin’ fer the fellow pony, only the bottom bit. He said by the time he was born, magic was gone from the world, and it was just a dyin’ husk of nothing but empty dreams and false promises.” Applejack added as she kept Twilight in a powerful hug.

“Not to mention that just from his new mother pulling the moon closer, his people sought out their own doom, burning themselves to death out of baseless paranoia and spite.” Zecora finished as she hugged the whimpering Dr. Wolf. “it was what finally cemented his hatred for his world.”

“She did what!?” I shouted. “That!...Explains all of the drowning I experienced.”

“Drownings?” Celestia asked after getting over the horrible news when she heard I might have suffered.

“When I first stepped into Bronze’s domain my extensive experience with necromancy and sensitivity to the dead hit me hard. Almost all those people that died in those times became angry ghosts and I was overwhelmed. As a result I got to experience the last moments of every single one. Man, woman and child. It took a while from my perspective and a lot of them hurt a lot.” I reply and the next moment I was clutched in the powerful hug of Celestia as she started to cry for me. “P-Please! I need air!” I cried out as I struggled. “Come on Celestia that was far from the worst experience I’ve ever had so please calm down!” Suddenly Celestia froze and looked down at me.

“...There was something worse than that?” She asked as she looked even more upset.

“...no. I was just trying to calm you down. Sorry I didn’t think that one through.” I lied. Not wanting to make this worse. “Oh look a door! Let’s all focus on that!” I say as I point to Bronze’s front door that appeared out of nowhere which opened to reveal two Lunas and Jeeves, but the other Luna was as big as Celestia, and looked more like Nightmare Moon but with much better hair, since it was like a curtain into the cosmos with galaxies and nebula floating through it.. “Um...Celestia can you let me go now?” I ask which got a confused look from my Luna who was used to Celestia being so in control. Celestia stopped and looked around before giving me a look.

‘We are going to talk about this later.’ Before putting me down and without skipping a beat put her mask she shows the public back on and gave everyone a serene smile.

“I have brought Prince Bronze’s mother as per request. Please see to it that he gets some chastisement that will make it through. Being the Sane Third of him is getting tiring.” Jeeves commented before he closed the door, and it vanished.

“Right. After you’ve spoken with him I would like to teach you how to make portals to the shadow realm. Space magic doesn’t work there and I feel you will need to make good use of it as a time out corner when he gets out of control in the future.” I say to the larger Luna.

“Verily, thou hast quite the astute idea. We are currently without the ability to restrain him, so having a way would be quite appreciated.” Night-Luna said as she turned to her smaller counterpart. “Now as we were saying. Thou should indeed consider a noble hound of the highlands for a suitor. Sif was a very efficient and enjoyable lover for the time we had with him.” Night-Luna said making my Luna Blush.

“Alright let’s go to the shadow realm and not talk about my niece getting laid in front of me.” I say with a frown as I create a portal and gesture for them to enter.

The Shadow Realm.

“There~ you are~. Come back to the cage? Another nana disappeared…. Now the grandson carries a cage~. He will ever have his cage~. Now nana’s never coming back. So come into the cage and become nana’s shade.” Bronze eerily sing-songed as his swirling eyes span faster.

“...I haven’t kept him in here that long I swear!” I said to Night-Luna after watching Bronze for a moment of crazy.

“We art afraid Discord’s influence is at hoof. Ever since the Winter Witch’s attempted invasion on Hearth’s Warming-.” Night-Luna paused to let Bronze scream out in pure rage for a moment. “-His statue has shown increasing levels of Chaos magic leaking, and his eyes are ever telling. The last to have those eyes was the final Acolyte of Chaos before he was decapitated for his crimes.”

“Bronze, Your mom is here to talk to you… well moms. So let’s put the sing along songs on hold for a moment okay?” I ask with a friendly smile.

“Who are you to speak Christmas Lover?!” Bronze hissed angrily as he suddenly started swimming through the darkness towards me like it was water. “I’ll suck your blood out!”

“Son, no draining good people dry. Save it for the death-row inmates and your prey.” Night-Luna chastised as she stuck out her armored left foreleg and intercepted his inches-long teeth before he could reach me.

“What happened to grauntie?” I asked sadly. Even if we hadn’t known each other that long I’ve already grown attached to the addition to the family.

“Don’t let it get to thee fair fox. Bronze is simply needing his medication, which he hast obviously forgotten with the heat cycle and being separated from us for a prolonged period without dosage. Thou'rt lucky he didn’t rip thine spine out or something to play pool with.” Night-Luna said as she produced a quick-eject syringe from her satchel.

“That would have been very disagreeable yes.” I agree with a nod as I help restrain his movement to allow his mother to stick him with the needle in his neck. It was thankfully easy to overpower him when he can’t use his space magic.

“So that’s it? Surely thou are working on a more permanent solution?” My Luna asked with worry as her larger counterpart pulled the needle out of Bronze’s neck and I let him go a respectable distance from me..

“Until Discord inevitably breaks free, and we hopefully have the Elements prepared to pacify him for negotiation, my son is to remain one of the Mad. He simply needs an injection of this serum once per week to maintain his decorum otherwise.” Night-Luna sadly informed as Bronze suddenly began panting, sweating, and hissing in pain.

“Ah! AH~!” Bronze screamed in utter agony, crying as his eyes stopped spinning and he writhed pitifully in the non-air of the pure darkness.

“It is excruciating. Having one’s mind forcibly drawn back from the bliss of Madness. The only reason he was sane after two months of incarceration after the event that caused his lunacy was because that serum was laced into his medicine.” Night-Luna wilted at the sight as I pull a cup from the shadows and grabbed Bronze in one of my tails before I start channeling my magic and the screaming stopped as slowly the red glow of liquid pain started to drip into the cup.

“I’m loving this spell more and more. Liquid Pain takes all of the pain from the target of the spell and converts it into this substance. It’s a pain killer that requires no drugs to complicate things.” I say as I show her the slowly filling glass.

“Woulds’t thou teach us that spell? Our son’s reaction to the injection gets worse every time, and it’s only been the third time he’s received it.” Night-Luna practically pleaded as Bronze groaned.

“I guess if you can handle dark magic. This is necromancy and it can be dangerous for those not trained to use it. I would prefer to enchant a container to work the spell.” I say.

“Mom? Where are we?” Bronze asked weakly as the glow of his eye swirls finished dimming to nothing, leaving just the swirls as still as ever.

“Someplace safe son. I can do it Princess Rin. I must.” Night-Luna stated with resolve that only a parent could have.

“Very well. However I must insist on one condition. Every drop of liquid pain created with this spell must be sent to me. It can be used to power up my dark magic but the biggest reason is I don’t want that stuff out there. Aside for its uses magicly this stuff is an extremely potent and highly addictive drug. You understand?” I ask Night-Luna while giving her a very serious expression.

“Of course. As Nightmare, we had the foalish action of raising dead before. Now we seek to turn said magic towards a more constructive purpose. Learning from a master necromancer would only aid on that path.” Night-Luna said seriously as she levitated her son over to her. “Now apologize to thine God-Grauntie son, for thine malicious and uncouth behavior.”

“Sorry Grauntie Rin, for anything I might’ve done.” Bronze apologized feebly, looking both confused and scared, and fragile at his current size. Snorting I placed my paw on him and grew him back to his normal height.

“I guess I can’t blame you too much as you were not in control of your actions. Also I got lots of pictures of you small and in baby clothes and your marefriends babying you to add to the album so I can show everyone.” I say to Bronze as I ruffle his mane.

“Okay. Love you Grauntie.” Bronze kissed me on the cheek and nuzzled me before he looked around. “What is this place? It feels...wrong.”

“It should for you. Me and your mom are stronger here but for you the Shadow realm is your kryptonite. All shadows lead to the Shadow realm but like them it holds no space. You are completely cut off from your space magic because it can’t work in a place that has no space. You’re here because you went too far and you needed a timeout and a spanking.” I answered as I watch him give this place a weary look.

“Yeah...that sounds about right. Here I’m not seeing things from an omni-dimensional perspective. I don’t see seams in everything because there’s nothing to see. I don’t feel like I can just...fade into nothing if I let down my guard here. It’s...nice.” Bronze admitted with a weak and tired expression that made him seem older than his mom and aunt combined. “Huh...so this is what it felt like? Being normal?”

“Well I’m going to teach your mom how to create shadow portals. She can use it to travel anywhere on her world as fast as you can provided there is a shadow there. Or stop half way to send you here. Just in case. So if you feel you need it you can ask her to let you come here if you ever need to clear your head.” I say with a smile.

“Hey, thanks. I appreciate it.” Bronze kissed me on the cheek again, before he sighed. “But I’ve been away from home long enough I guess?” Bronze asked his mom, who nodded.

“Tis only been a few days since the heat ended for us, but even then thou’st been gone for over a week and a half.” Night-Luna confirmed before turning to me. “We shalt return on occasion for lessons, time does not matter between our universe and others, so we could stay here as long as necessary and return home mere moments after we’d left, so do not be surprised if we drop in unexpectedly.” I nod at this before giving her a serious look.

“I’ve only taken three students in my life but I’ve never taught any strictly dark magic spells like Liquid Pain before. Only how to use dark magic without losing control. You can already do this? No matter how much you chanel?” I ask her, getting a nod. “I have pushed my skills in necromancy in all of it’s applications. But what I focused on most off all where it’s healing applications. If you truly wish to use this magic to help others then I will show you how to mend flesh and bone back together like putting two legos together You will be able to purge any poison or foreign objects from the body and keep them alive. And once you are skilled enough I will teach you a death spell. This spell kills discriminately. Mastering this spell will let you cast it on anyone leaving them unharmed but killing any sickness even those deemed incurable inside them. However have a bathroom ready because that spell makes all of the food passing through them rotten so the body will work to eject it fast.” I tell her.

“Hm, our son has such an ability himself, being able to do so our self would be quite a good thing.”

“Mom, healing is different from my magic. I just literally fuse atoms and molecules together to make everything work in a cohesive manner.” Bronze shook his head. With a nod I create a shadow portal and send Bronze and my Luna through before closing it.

“Let’s get those two spells done now before you go. First, Liquid Pain.” I say as I toss her a bottle.

A few hours later in the palace.

Everyone was sitting around having tea except for Celestia because it was time for her to take court. As Zecora was pouring another cup she looked down and watched as her shadow elongated and grew fatter until it was easily long enough for Night-Luna to pass through. She had some difficulty at first getting her wide flanks through, but managed to climb up all the same. Shortly after she got out I hopped out like it was no problem.

“Good. I think you got it down well enough to practice it on your own now.” I say approvingly with a smile and a nod. I look up at the grandfather clock on the wall and frown. “Looks like it’s almost time for my turn to fend off the parasites.” I say in annoyance.

“Hey, Grauntie. As a farewell apology, I could warp them all to a deserted island in the west ocean. Inhabited by seaponies.” Bronze suggested from his place laying on the therapist couch, both Twilight and Dr. Wolf cuddling together on top of him.

“No. That would be cruelty to seaponies.” I say dismissively. “Besides they are still miffed at me about the Morgan Freeman curse I placed on all of them.”

“...Say what?” Oh no, here we go, should’ve known better than to bring it up what with him pulling a Morgan Freeman voice out earlier. “BRONZE WANT! Cast please! Or teach! Want to troll so much!”

“Son.” Night-Luna said with a dangerous tone, getting the Discorded stallion to calm right back down in a cowed and submissive state. “Apologies. He so does love his movies.”

“I’m more curious about what’s going on here. I thought those two would be scared of each other for weeks, or months.” I comment, pointing out Dr. Wolf and Twilight, who seemed incredibly at ease atop their tormentor and snuggling each other at that. Aw, it was like a filly snuggling her pet dog.

“Shortly after Bronze came back he apologized and he admitted his own mental failings. When that still didn’t work we hit them with a sleep spell.” Luna said.

“...And you put them with each other. Stupidest idea ever. Let them ease into it.” I say as I separate the two and send Twilight home through a portal. “Well it’s time for me to take court and I imagine you guys want to go home. So I wish you a safe trip and a reformed Discord to fix your problem.” I say that last one to Bronze but look to the others and open my forelegs. “Group goodbye hug? It will help my mood for what I’m about to deal with.”

“Aw, big group hug! Group Hug! Oh~! Mind if I kiss the monkey? *SMOOCH-HAK* Oh, hairball!” Bronze shouted out excitedly as he and the other visitors were suddenly in my embrace each of us with an impossible number of Bronze’s forelegs hugging us, and a head that sprouted from one next to me kissed me and hacked up a brown hairball away from us.

“...My fur is white.” I say with a deadpan before shaking my head with a smile. “Oh well. See you all later.” I say as I let them go and Bronze’s front Door appeared and opened wide for them to go home. I gave them one last farewell wave as most of them walked through the door except for Bronze who was being carried in his mother’s magical grasp. With a sigh I left the room through one of my portals and entered the throne room and took a seat on the new throne that we had made because we never did find the old one.

“Alright I’m ready. Bring on the nobles.” I call out. Slowly the large doors opened and in walked a very nervous looking guard.

“Um...about that your majesty… Well the line of nobles kind of...disappeared.”

“...What?” I say flatly. I told him not to send them to the Sea Pony Island!. I thought to myself. Luckily I know where that is so I close my eyes and use the sight of evil spell. Hmmmm. He didn’t send them there. But then where did he send them? As I thought of all of the headaches this is going to cause in the future my right eye twitched as my irritation grew.

“Faust dammit Bronze!”

In the Savannahs of Zebrica

“Run colt! RUN!” A fitter noble screamed at his more portly compatriot as the herd of screaming nobles were being chased by a female manticore, several zebra tribes-ponies valiantly chasing said beast to save them.

“Th-this is the end! I sacrifice myself to save you all!” The fat stallion melodramatically screamed as he turned about-face and ran angrily at the beast, only for a giant spear to shaft it through the neck and send it crashing to the ground, barely missing him.

“Fine you be, from your swift flee? We gave chase, but we are surprised you managed such a pace.” Said a large muscular zebra mare who trotted to the stunned and heavily dressed fat stallion. “Are you well? You look like you must rest a spell.”

“...Marry me?” The stallion suddenly asked in surprise, and the mare blinked in bewilderment.

Author's Notes:

And that is all of the crossover requests I got but one. I'm surprised at how many people asked to crossover with me at the same time. Now I just need to finish that one that's stuck in a standstill. This story was a crossover with GameJunkie7's story Doorways.