"Say ahhhh." Said the doe in front of me as she shined a light down my throat. Her name is Summer. The local goddess of nature and medicine and the one that came to confirm my ascension for the other gods of this world. "Alright you can close your mouth now." She said as she backed away.

"Well?" Celestia asked.

"She is not one of us yet. She is going through a transition faze. This is some kind of forced ascension resulting from the sudden massive jump in worshipers and the fact that they are somehow sending their prayers directly into her. At least that is all I can tell about it. I know there must be more to it as just having worshipers isn't enough to become a god. If it were every brainwashing cult leader would become one. Maybe I should go drinking with Tatonya and get myself some more followers." Summer joked. "Sorry Rin but you're still mortal. You're also in for a rough ride too. But don't worry I have just the medicine to make it better. But first, do you know what she's being worshiped for?"

At her question Celestia summoned up the list and hoofed it over for Summer to read. "...Elevator buttons?"

"Don't ask." Celestia deadpanned. Summer and my girls just sat there silently glancing amongst themselves. Are they having a telepathic conversation without me? After I thought this Celestia in a quick movement pulled out a collar and locked it on my neck and I can feel my magic being locked away. Alarm bells ring in my head as the collar is never a good sign and I moved to get up but then I felt a crushing weight as Luna jumped onto the bed I was laying on for my examination and sat on me.

"No! Set me free!" I cry out.

"Sorry dear aunty but should thou leave our sight thou may very well flee from thy medicine." Luna said as Summer left by teleporting away.

"I'm not in your sight I'm under your butt get off of me!" I shouted as I struggled to breath.

"Calm down aunty it will be over soon." Celestia said in that soothing voice of hers.

"What could be so bad about the medicine that it requires this? What is it some kind of suppository!?" I demand.

"No not a suppository." Summer said as she reappeared carrying some boxes. "We need to give you your aspects now. However we can't just put them in you because of your situation. So they need to be absorbed into your body slowly. For this I went to the aspect storage area where they are kept until they find owners and got physical manifestations of the aspects on your list which you're going to need to swallow." She said as she opened the first box and pulled out a jar filled with black slime that moved around on its own.

"First darkness." She said as she opened the jar and lifted it up to my mouth. Nervously I open my mouth and she pores it in and an explosion of amazing flavors shoot through my mouth. Why do they need to restrain me for this? It's amazing!

"Next pranks." Summer said after I swallowed and she pulled out some kind of wriggling thing that was giving off laughter and put it into my eager mouth. 'ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!' I spasm at the sudden shock and almost spit it out. It has a joy buzzer! Despite the unpleasant surprise I manage to force it down.

"Games." She said as she pulled out a pulsing slime that looked like yellow play dough that kept shifting and as it did I kept seeing toys shift in and out of the mass. I gave it a weary look but took it anyways. It tasted like candy.

"Monsters" I tense when Summer said that and look with dread as she pulled out something that looks like one of those face huggers from the alien movies. I understand the restraints now! I thought as I clamped my mouth shut and whimpered. When Summer tried to feed that thing to me I just kept moving my head away. With a sigh Celestia grabbed my head in her magic and forced me to face forward and forced my mouth open. To my horror that thing was placed in my mouth and without me doing anything it darted deeper into my mouth and crawls down my throat. I can feel its spider like legs as it crawls around in my stomach making itself at home.

"Next lost knowledge." Summer said after she gave me a moment to calm down and she pulled out a mass of shifting words in so many languages I couldn't understand any of it. I didn't even fight it as she opened my mouth and placed it inside. It tasted like chalk and dust but at least this is something I can swallow.

"Forbidden knowledge." She said simply as she pulls out what looks like the same mass of shifting words only where the last one had black words like they were written in ink this one had red ones like they were written in blood. With a groan I open my mouth and take it. It tasted like hotdogs.

"Alright this one might be a little strange." Summer said and I give her a look as she pulls out a tiny pony dressed up as bat-man. "Dark heroes." She said as she moved it towards me.

"Why? Just, why?" I ask as I look at the aspect.

"Because I'm bat-mane." The aspect said in a gruff yet high pitched voice as my mouth was once more forced open by a golden aura. With a pathway open the small hero did a flip into my mouth and just slid on my tongue to my throat before diving down.

"That was so wrong." I say weakly. I look up and see Summer and Celestia giving me nervous looks.

"Alright just one more. Brace yourself this is the one we bound you for." Summer said and I tense up. The monster wasn't the bad one!? I thought before searching my memory for the list and trying to think of what was left. As Summer opens the box she backs away while turning green and lifting a hoof to her mouth to keep herself from loosing her lunch. At the smell of rot and decay filled the room I realized what it was. Undeath

After a moment Summer reached in and pulled out a wiggling mass of rotting flesh. I can see organs and even a brain exposed and it had one dead eye that focused on me like I was the only thing in the room. I gag at the pus oozing from the wounds and the maggots and worms wiggling about all over it. Worst fear factor challenge ever! I thought to myself as I struggled to get away but Luna's plot was too heavy.

"Come on. You play with this stuff all the time." Summer encouraged.

"I don't eat th-!" I started to protest only to realize all too late that I had made a mistake as Summer took the opportunity to shove the thing in my mouth and Celestia quickly used her magic to bind my mouth shut. As the vile thing squirmed in my mouth I felt a painful sensation on my tongue. It has teeth!

"Calm down aunty, please. This is as bad for me as it is for you." Celestia said in a placating tone. Bull shit! It's not in your mouth!

"Just swallow!" Luna demanded. I'm trying! My gag reflex wont let me! After a short struggle I was in tears from the thing on my mouth biting everything it could and from it just being there. "Oh for crying out loud! Sister unbind her mouth!" Luna demanded as she pulled my head up and and once my mouth was opened she grabbed the aspect and pushed it and the lower part of her hoof down my throat. Just to make sure that it went down. Once she was sure it was down there she pulled her hoof back and wiped it off on Celestia which caused Celestia to back away in disgust.

"That was the last one. There is no aspect for buttons I've checked." Summer said with a sigh as I was coughing and wheezing.

"I think I'm about to lose my aspects." I groan as Luna gets off of me.

"Oh no you don't." Summer said as she blasted me with a spell. "That will keep you from regurgitating for a few days."

"Undeath is still biting me." I groan as I clutch my stomach. I don't know how my stomach could hurt any worse right now. 'ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ' "Ahhhh! Prank!"

"I'm sorry you'll just have to surfer through it. Don't worry they can't harm you so whatever they do in there you'll be fine." Summer reassured just before I feel what I think is undeath and monster get into a fight. "Trust me if you were aloud to ascend on your own the way you were it would have been slower and far worse. You might have even died before loosing your mortality." Summer said in an apologetic tone. "Think of it like pulling off a bandied as fast as you can."

"I've never heard of anyone ascending this way." I complain as I summon a bottle and start using liquid pain on myself. I can still feel them in there and it isn't pleasant but at least it has stopped hurting.

"Well I've never heard of anyone doing it ether. In all honesty you shouldn't be able to ascend just by having worshipers. I don't know what they are using to worship you but it is somehow getting in to you even though you had no aspects before. Besides the winning argument that stopped us from crushing you like a bug for that fake goddess thing was that most of us believed that this would happen. You already had the raw power to ascend you just needed the right catalyst." Summer said. "This new situation has just forced us to cheat a little to make sure you are okay when it's done." Summer said as she poked at my Bellsprout who was sitting in a pot on my table. He was living up in my castle now so that he could enjoy real sunlight instead of the artificial lights in the garden room.

"So I'm going to be a goddess but not the kind I would have become naturally?" I ask.

"Any of those aspects can force their way out of you if they wanted yet they haven't and some jumped into you on there own. That means they accept you as their owner." Summer said dismissively. "I don't think you would have gotten them all but you would have gotten some of them."

"So how long until I'm done absorbing them?" I ask as I pat my tummy getting a shrug from Summer.

"Who knows. Like we've established earlier this has never happened before. All I can say is it should take no longer than the end of the day. It depends on how fast your body can safely absorb them. You also may notice some changes in your powers and body as you absorb them and you will be able to tap into the aspect's power to a limited level until this is done. This means you can hear and answer prayers among other things. Just don't get cocky. Until you have absorbed them completely you are still mortal. And even for an immortal there are still a few things that can kill you. Like that thing you brought into our world to fight the Juggernaut. Such things are rare but they exist despite our efforts to get rid of them all. And don't forget how we lost your adoptive sister and her husband. An immortal can be killed by the hooves of another." Summer said in a lecturing tone. "Now I must be off. But I have a few doctors orders before I go. No more magic eating until you have absorbed them completely and take it easy until it is done." After saying that Summer vanished in a flash of teleportation.

"Well that was unpleasant." I say as I try to get up but I'm forced back down by a gold and blue aura.

"No no. You need to take it easy remember?" Celestia said with a smile.

"Indeed dear aunty! And we shall care for thee until we must return for our time at court!" Luna proclaimed loudly. "Would thou like some of our home made mushroom soup?" I resist the urge to cringe at the idea and thankfully have an excuse. Which is a good thing because every attempt to convince Luna that her cooking is bad only results in her forcing the nay sayer to eat her cooking to prove them wrong.

"Luna, I just swallowed the aspect of undeath. Do you really think I have an apatite right now?" I ask in a deadpan.

"Ah, yes. We see thy point." Luna said with a cringe.

"Besides I'm just going to look around my new place it's not that taxing." I say as I try to get up again but am once more forced down.

"You know as well as we do you can look around without leaving the bed." Celestia said so I poke at the magic suppressor they have around my neck. I wonder if this stuff will even work once I truly ascend "Do you promise to be good and stay in bed if we take it off? And I mean no loopholes like flying the bed around. You must stay here." Celestia said and I reluctantly agree. Once I was free of the thing I lay down and close my eyes to use my sight of evil spell.

My above view of my new room in my black castle showed Celestia teleporting back to her palace while Luna marched around my bed like a guard alert for trouble. I smile at this before moving to check on my library which was now staffed by Twilights that decided to live here having never found friendship or never had a princess teacher. I am giddy to see that new books are still coming in. Phantom Rin is even helping with the quickly growing collection.

Having checked on the only part of my castle that I wanted to I check outside to see how the city is going. I'm surprised at how fast they are working. Just outside the city is a floating island with a wizard's school on it. Though to be fare they didn't build that here it was just moved here for my library. Another draw was the black crystal coliseum I built after a few fights broke out. I just copied the magic in one of my games and set it up in there while turning some of the black crystals into a giant illusion projector so everyone there can watch. I named it the Fluffy Dome! The rest was built by those wishing to live here so the place was split into different districts. Like the nature district where giant trees were being grown to live in.

There was another living district next to that one that was being built and run on magi-tech. The market district was more normal looking but bigger and already had built and opened shops. From food like the one I gave to the Apple family so they can send their apples to be sold or prepared to the potion shop that was made by some of my little zebras. There is even a place called the Body Shop that sells the remains of monsters killed by adventurers or guards if the monsters attack a town or city. I've already placed an order for five of everything so that I can study them. The crowning jewel of the market district however was Fox Fire Hall. The new adventuring guild started by a team of Power Ponies that had sadly lost their world to a crazed supervillain that destroyed the place by crashing the moon into the planet. After they claimed a large bit of land and started building they were quickly joined by every other aspiring adventurer including Bob and they all used there skills to build a giant super hero like tower that crossed advanced scientific engineering with wizards magic, druid magic, and artificer magi-tech. The place had everything except a training ground because the Fluffy Dome was better than anything they could have made and it's free to fight in.

I smile when I see that they are already hard at work and I can see Bob with a team coming back from a quest and heading too Dragon's Hord Exchange which was run by dragoness Twilight to get their loot appraised and exchange some currency. ...Well that didn't eat up much of my time. I thought to myself as I end the spell and open my eyes. Well if I'm going to just lay here for who knows how long. Come to me my imp! I waited for a short while but nothing happens.

"Imp?" I ask aloud getting Luna's attention. Before she could ask what I was talking about there was a red flash and bats made of shadows flew off from the point before evaporating revealing a disheveled looking Octavia. "I see that you're getting the hang of vampire teleportation." I say with a smile to the groaning mare as she got to her hooves.

"It's a work in progress." Octavia said as she straitened her mane. "Anyways I've been asked to come inform you that your imps just exploded. Nothing dangerous but there are complaints from some of the others they were serving. Particularly the changelings that managed to monopolize one for the diaper changing station. Now they have to do it and they are not happy about it." I blink a few times at the news and realize I can no longer feel the constant drain of magic to keep them going.

"Must have overloaded them." I say with a frown and cast the create imp spell to rebuild my work force only for it to explode with mana before it could form. "...what?" I try again with less power and again it explodes. And again and again.

"Please stop." Octavia begged as she hid behind Luna. With a sigh I summon up some of the gems in my dungeon and the orb I used to store the life force I take from plants for my spells. Not only do I know the create imp spell from Dungeon Keeper 2 but I know the one from the first game. This one gives them flesh and blood bodies and they don't feed off of your mana to survive but unlike in the first game you need to give them life force to work. Otherwise you just get a dead imp body. And their life expectancy depends on how much life force you give them which is why I don't normally use it. Channeling my magic I was able to create ten servants with about two months of life. More than enough time to get more life force. However...

"Those aren't imps." Octavia observed. Standing before me were ten orange, anthro foxes with black for the whites of there eyes and green pupils. They had wicker basket backpacks in place of the imps burlap sacks and their pickaxes were much nicer. Other than that they were naked. Not even having the loin cloths the imps have.

"Umm... You, put down your things and come here." I order while pointing to one of the foxes.

"Yes mistress." It said as it took it's basket off and placed it on the ground and her pickaxe in the basket before running up and jumping into my bed. To say I was surprised was an understatement. Imps could only talk when they hit level ten and even then it was like talking to a goblin. Yet this fox spoke perfect English at level one.

"I'm going to examine you now." I say to the fox. Imps are just constructs so I can use and abuse them. If the aspects in me made this spell create life then I'm going too just go without the slave labor of the imps and substitute human skeletons. I'm also going to feel guilty that I gave them life that would only last two months.

"If that will please you mistress." The fox said as she stands in front of me. First things first I grab it and focus my power to look inside. She has no soul. And her mind... I give a sigh of relief when I realize it's just programed info just like the imps. It's just much better. I then go further and check the muscles and circulatory system. Defiantly built for slave labor.

"Good news, they are an upgraded model of the imps." I say as I pat the fox on the head. "You nine go with her. She'll give you some jobs but before you go to them I want you to work on expanding the room where I dump you all off and claiming the land you uncover doing this." I say before I pick them up with my hand and send them to my dungeon. "You are going to be my personal servant while I recover." I say to the fox in my paws as I use inspiration manifestation to give her a butlers tux minus the pants as it looks better that way and they are genderless constructs with no privet parts anyways. I'm just calling it a her because of it's high pitched voice.

"Yes mistress. How may I serve you." The fox asked.

"I want you to go down to my library and find me good books." I say as I salivate at all of that arcane knowledge.

"Yes mistress. Anything in particular I should look for?" The fox asked. I think of all of those books. I wish I could read more than one at a time. Hmmmmmm.

"Chakra control." I say and my small servant bows and runs off. I waited for about ten minutes before she came back.

"I'm sorry mistress but there are no books about anything called chakra. I checked the list the librarians have made twice. And no one I asked knew what chakra is." She said in an apologetic tone. So much for shadow clones. I thought to myself.

"Then find me anything on being able to read more than one book at once or how to read them faster." I say with a wave of my paw. "And if you can't find those than bring me something that I can use to entertain myself." With another bow she was off. Thinking about what to do while I wait I summon up one of the gold necklaces made from conjured gold.

"What art thou doing aunty?" Luna asked when she saw this.

"Summon harem spell." I say and Luna suddenly got very panicked. "Relax I would never do that in front of you." I say with an eye roll. That would be like having your own kids walk in on you. "I'm just going to get an innocent massage. Would you like one too?" I ask and she calms down considerably.

"Ah, indeed that does sound nice." Luna said as she climbed into the other side of the bed. "What doth tho get exactly from this spell anyways?" Luna asked.

"Whatever you fancy. Like bunny girls." I say and try to give a demonstration but when the light cleared I find yet again I have created anthro servants. Small ones at that. There noses twitching as they looked up at me.

"Tho hast strange taste." Luna stated mater of factly.

"Not what I was aiming for." I deadpanned. Okay so there are some limitations on what you can get with this spell. I thought to myself.

"How may we serve?" One of the bunny girls asked.

"..."

Happily Rose hummed while she watered her flowers. She was happily moving on to the next set of flowers but when she turned around she came face to face with the most horrifying bunny she had ever seen. It just stood there staring at her, standing at a monstrous one foot tall while it twitched its nose. Slowly she backed away only to feel her hind leg bump against something fury ant turned to see yet another bunny staring at her.

"Eppp!" Rose squeaked and bolted for the door of the flower shop run by her and her sisters who were off making flower deliveries. She burst through her shop's door and quickly slammed it shut and locked it. Taking a moment to get her breathing under control she sat up and turned to look out the window to see if they were still there. "AHHHHHHHHHHH!" She screamed in terror at seeing the bunny looking back at her from the other side of the glass.

Quickly she scrambled back and turned to run away but stopped dead at seeing the bunnies in her path. She turned left and found more. Spinning around she quickly realized that she was surrounded. All at once the bunny army of doom reached behind themselves to draw their weapons and pulled out paper! When they held the sheets over their heads they all said 'I wuv U' in crayon will little smiling bunny faces drawn around it. The terror was too great and she fainted.

'Crack, crack' went my back as the conjured ponies worked my back. I look to my side when I heard Luna purring as they worked the tension out of her. I just snuggled further into my bed and relaxed. The fighting inside me even stopped thankfully so I no longer need to focus on the liquid pain spell.

"I'll see your ten and raise you another ten." I heard.

"I call." I blink at hearing this and turn my head to look at my stomach area.

"Are...you guys playing poker in there?" I ask incredulously.

"Do you expect us to just sit around twiddling our hooves, tendrils and claws while waiting for you to finish absorbing us?" One of them asked. "Besides it's this or the pinball machine."

"Very funny." I say flatly before the sound of a pinball machine being played rang out from my insides. "Nice try Games. I know that's you making sound effects. I would have noticed if I had eaten a pinball machine."

"And where do you think we got the cards and chips? Games can create any game items from nothing at will." One of them said and my eye widened. My stomach does feel heavier than it did a while ago.

"Hey those things are going to disappear after Games is absorbed right?" I ask them.

"...Why?"

"Why? What do you mean why? I don't want those things going through my system and I sure as Tartarus don't want to be sitting in the bathroom trying to squeeze out a pinball machine!" I yell. I wait for a few moments but get no answer as the sound of the game start up again. Multi ball! Before I can continue shouting at them there was a knock on my door.

"Come in." I call out and one of my black knights leaned into the room.

"Lyra Heartstrings is out here requesting to see you. She said it's important." The knight said. Luna became instantly alert at hearing this and ignored her back rub as she got ready to defend me. My Bellsprout who is also aware of the situation with her turned towards the door while uprooting himself from his flower pot looking ready to act should he need to.

"Let her in" I tell the knight and he nods and disappears behind the door once more. Shortly after the mint green unicorn came walking into the room and promptly fell to the floor crying her eyes out.

"I'm sorrrrrrryyyyyyyy!" She cried out from my floor. "I thought you were evil! We didn't know! The Goodly Heroes are meant to protect the innocent not attack them!" ...Celestia works fast. I honestly thought her plan to guide the spy into seeing the truth would fail. But she managed to pull it off in a few weeks. I wonder what managed to penetrate her head.

"So you're a Goodly Hero. So what changed your mind about me?" I ask.

"Well"

Flashback!

Silently Lyra moved through the new city being created by the monster. She looked in disgust at the strange creatures. Some even had the gall the take on a human like shape! Zipping from one building to another Lyra searched for anything she could use when she stopped. There, wandering the streets like this was any ordinary city. Were humans. Real humans and not lying fakes like that Ax guy or those dwarf things.

"Can you believe how fast this city is being built?" One of them asked.

"It's being built around the home of a goddess." Another said as if answering the first.

"A good one at that. I would have never believed that she defeated an army of ten thousand demons with a prank using nothing but two forks and a massive number of chickens if I hadn't seen her pull it off." Another said with a laugh. "Those demons wont be able to sit for a hundred years! She became my favorite goddess that day."

Lyra gasped.

End of flashback!

"...and?" I ask when she stopped talking.

"And what? That's it." Lyra said.

"...Are you telling me after all of our efforts to convince so many of your people that I'm not evil... That's all it took to change your mind?" I ask in a deadpan.

"...Yes?" Lyra said in an unsure tone.

"...I see. I don't suppose you would be able to tell me where your main HQ is would you?" I asked her getting an unsure look from the mare. "Look we're still trying to get it through to the others but they won't stop attacking me and what's worse is they are hurting others while doing it. Like the Crystal empire which is now a frozen ghost town. Or how the Juggernaut skinned my girls again and again and made a quilt out of it?" I ask her.

"Wait you mean that thing princess Luna had? That was real! I thought that was just some morbid Nightmare Night prop!" Lyra shouted getting me to sigh while I summon a world map and marker for her.

"They need to be stopped before they go too far." I say and she slowly takes the marker and makes a circle. "Thank you. Would you like me to send you to your mare friend? I'm sure you two have things to discuss." With a nod from her I create a portal and send her to the palace. Once she was gone I look down at the map and I can only blink at the location marked. "Wait... That's where I..."

"What do you mean they weren't there!?" A griffin yelled at the pony sitting at the other end of the table.

"Like I said we have no idea where our comrades are being imprisoned. It's like they disappeared." The pony replied.

"She probably killed them." A donkey said gravely.

"Calm down. We still need to...what's that noise?" A unicorn at the table asked getting silence from the rest of the table. 'clang clang clang CRASH!' Everyone turned in surprise to see a group of equally surprised looking foxes holding pickaxes.