Author's Notes:

This chapter will not be that funny. In fact it's where that Gore tag first kick in. You have been warned!

Zzzzzzzzzzzz... A new creature has entered your dungeon! "Aaaahh!" I screamed as I jumped out of my king sized bed. Oh right. I forgot it did that. I had a productive night. First thing I did was create a new stick of trolling. Then with the evil eye spell I was able to find a small cave next to a river to create a new dungeon heart in. I let it create some imps and dug down. Moving the heart was easy and now I have a large dungeon deep beneath the Everfree. Well ok I only built the Inner sanctum, a few layers, hatchery, training room, and three treasuries but I already have the space for all the other rooms ready when I decide to build them. I created Cluck Norris the 3rd. Shame I can only have one at a time. Once tried to make an army of super chickens. But turns out they kill each other by instinct leaving only the strongest. Had the walls fortified then had the imps train with Cluck in the training room except one to mine one of the ten gem seams to keep the magic of the room working for them. Unfortunately unlike in the game it takes a while for anything the heart will attract to get here so I just went to bed.

I close my eyes and look to see what I got. I was hoping for a spider so I can start getting bits for the minions that want to be paid but no it was just a timber wolf. Oh no wait it's seven timber wolves. Well at least now I have a small force to guard my dungeon while I'm away. After I feel them connect I pick them up with my hand of evil and drop them off in the lair to make their beds then moved them to the now empty training room to get to level 4. Task done I turn back to my bed to see that it's covered in random things.

I giddily hop back into bed to look thru all of the tokens. Let's see glove, some rings, few masks, another glove, comic book? I grab the comic and lay back in bed to enjoy the adventures of Dr. Doom. This is a fun way to advertise what kind of displaced you are. I turn to the next page only for my eyes to pop open in surprise. Is he and Lyra... And is that Gilda? IS SHE!? I decide to skip a few pages. How embarrassing. I don't think he's going to be happy when he finds out what every displaced that has his comic can see. Still he seems like an ok guy. Yes he's being a bad guy but in a good way. I grin widely at the thought of fighting crime while playing super villain.

Closing the comic and placing it on my night stand I look back down at the others and gasp. "Bouncy ball!" I cry and give it a good wake. I grin as I play with my new toy but soon that grin turns into a confused frown. I catch it on its return trip and hear its message in my head. “Hello… My name is Fourth Wall. If you need help, I’ll come and LAY A SMACK DOWN- Sorry, I don’t know where that came from. I will help you, anyway I can… As… as long as you aren’t mean…” Pinkie Pie? I shake my head and refocus on what caught my attention in the first place. Of all the dark magic in the world necromancy has always been a favorite. Need a sickness cured? Need flesh and bone restored? Free minions? You can even get around the dark spells requiring live sacrifices by substituting life force stolen from plants. As such I became a master at it. In fact it's the reason I chose the Everfree. Everything in this place hunts something else so no shortage of cadavers to turn into undead minions. Which brings us to my confusion. It bounces and makes bonging sounds when it does. It squeaks when I rub it. Its smell, its feel all tell me that it is in fact a rubber ball. So why does my necrosense tell me I'm holding a dead body? Or at least a part of one. Deciding on a experiment I try a reanimation spell on it and am surprised that it jumps out of my paws and starts bouncing around the room on its own. What's more is I can feel the link from my dungeon heart telling me that this thing has just become my minion. I just created an undead bouncy ball... "How does that work!?" Oh great here comes the headache. "Stop that!" My shout causing it to suddenly stop bouncing and roll into a corner in the room to await further orders. I decide to just let it sit there as I hold my poor head. Using my eye of evil I look above ground and see that it's morning so I move the other tokens to the bottom dresser drawer, gave my imps a mental command to go find me some bodies and created a portal to the plaice.

All eyes in the royal dining hall turned at the sound of opening doors as a large fox walked in. "Hey! Sup fluffy! Long time no see!" Looking over I smile at the familiar face of DJ pon-3 at the table. Or as I knew her, Victoria Song.

"Oh great, is this another commoner? How dare you break into the royal palace you filthy beast. Guards! seize this er... thing at once and lock it in the dungeon!" Prince blueblood was looking at me like I was a diseased rat. Looking around at the guards I see that not only are none of the guards moving but some of them were grinning like the Cheshire cat. Apparently word gets around in the guard. "What are you useless excuses for lackeys doing just standing around? Do what you're told!" A new creature has entered your dungeon! I cringe at that. My headache still lingering from trying to comprehend the bouncy ball.

"Are you alright aunty?" Asked Celestia in a concerned voice. OH! A camera! I need a camera! Blueblood’s face!

"Yes I'm fine. Just a small headache." Necromancy should not work on inorganic matter!

"Were thou assaulted by more bananas?!" Luna demanded with an angry tone. I just shake my head at this.

"No just an undead, rubber bouncy ball." Wow the room got quiet fast.

"Only you Rin. If anypony else said that I would think they were joking or crazy." Vinyl said with a shake of her head as I walked over and took my seat.

"Well as interesting as the story behind that might be, let's get back to discussing the problem at hoof." Said Blueblood as I feel the presence of Celestia brushing up against my mental barrier asking me to open up. I drop the shield and join the princess chat room.

Sorry about that aunty. I don't know what I'm going to do with him.

It's ok Celestia. What's he going on about anyways?

During Discord's mayhem sompony took advantage of the chaos and did something in his room that's not appropriate to talk about when ponies are eating.

He doth want us to hire the world's greatest detectives to track the pony down.

LOL

Can we talk about something more pleasant?

Who was that?

Aunty this is my niece Cadence. Cadence this is my aunty Rin

Hi/nice to meet you

Wait, what's that?

Oh man oh man, Princesses in my head! Don't think about clop don't think about clop...Stupid brain I said stop thinking about clop!

Victoria

Its Vinyl Scratch now.

Vinyl, we only hear what words your thinking we can't see any images.

...I knew that.

Riiight. Anyways, about my things?

Your dark artifacts are in your room. Which is next to ours. Its also where you can set up the portal. I also sent some books for you so you can catch up.

Awww, Thanks Celly!

Why does she need dark artifacts?

They're my toys.

YOUR TOYS!?

Don't worry it's not as bad as it sounds. I'll explain later.

ok

So Vinyl, interested in working for me again?

Hmmm. Sure, But I'll still need to do my DJ thing when it pops up and get back home to my filly friend every day.

Does she know?

Yes.

Know what?

Also might need some time to earn some bits. Just restarted and am working to attract some spiders.

Attract spiders?

I trust you. Besides the job comes with some nice perks. You can have so much fun when you don't need to worry about staying dead.

...I'm so confused.

Breakfast was enjoyable but I was excited to get my toys and new books back home. I decided to place the portal in the closet and created a few imps to place my books in the library I just made. Vinyl was taking a quick nap in a coffin so she can bond with it. I just finished setting up a workroom for the three spiders that showed up while I was away. No that's not a room design but if I know how it works I can make it. And all it is, is a room with some poles and some large roles for them to spin their silk on. Still waiting on my library shelves to be set up I head to the room I told my imps to store the animal bodies. I felt a few sources of dark magic in the forest but decided to leave them alone till I had my dungeon and some minions. I know at least one is the inspiration manifestation in the castle but I think I'll send some skeletons for that one. I don't want to get too close to that tree after what the Elements did to me. When I got to the room I was struck motionless by what lay before me. I have no problem with the dead. Got used to them long ago. No it's the kind of dead rotting in the pile that stopped me cold. I lashed out with one of my tails and wrapped it around an imps neck before bringing it up to my face. "Where did you get all of those pony bodies!?" Knowing they won't be able to talk till they're much stronger I drop it and use the possession spell on it to look through its recent memories. A pile of dead ponies in a cave close to a city on the other side of the forest. All with the same puncture wounds in their heads as the ones in front of me. After taking a moment to learn its location I jumped out of the imp's body and begin creating a portal to it.

Outside an Everfree cave close to Manehattan four obelisks seam to tear their way up out of the ground creating a large hole that a rather pissed looking fox floated up out of. Armed with my stick of trolling and a few empty gems to fill with this creature's life force. I march in to slay the monster. The cave was filled with the festering smell of rot and decay. Bodies simply left on the floor here and there in conditions from fresh to shambling. But when I got further in I could hear crying. Survivors! Rushing in I see that the crying ponies were being kept in a large cage. A unicorn stallion was sitting in front of a pegasus mare as she convulsed on the floor with something wiggling sticking out of her head. A vacant stare coming from the unicorn's eyes as he watched.

"What the hell is this!?" I screamed at maximum volume, shaking the cave and drawing the attention of everypony. The ponies in the cave started screaming louder. Begging me to save them from this place. With a sickening slurping sound the pegasus finally stopped moving and the wiggling thing popped its deformed head out of hers and turned to me.

"Do you mind? Some people are trying to eat." It said through its only slightly human face. The worm looked me up and down appraisingly. "Got a set of lungs on you, don't ya?" I tremble in rage that he not only killed so many ponies but was being so nonchalant about it!

"Aylmer! Your eating pony brains! What is wrong with you? They're innocent, sentient, beings!" My shouting caused the parasitic worm to jerk his head back.

"Ok, first off, indoor voice please. Even without ears that hurt. Second...how do you know my name?" Why is he talking to me in a tone that says we're friends!?

"Don't change the subject! You're killing and eating ponies! You don't even have the excuse of needing it. I've seen Brain Damage! I know you can live off of animals!" My outburst caused him to suddenly stop moving. He was just standing there, staring at me. Then he just burst out in laughter like I just told a joke!

"Ahahahaha, oh, oh you need to listen to this its funny. When you said my name I thought you were a cop and that I made a mistake somewhere. Oh but you're just like me! And here I thought I was the only freak around! Ahahahahaha! Oh, that was good. But as to your statement, I do need them. If you saw the movie you know eating animal brains keeps me weak and it's true I tried. Also, they're just not as goooood." He emphasized his point by smacking his lips a few times. "Trust me, my furry friend, I know all about need. Take Star Fall here for example. A talent in magic, with all that power and he was wasting his life working as a librarian. Well, I needed his skills so I gave him a taste of true sensation. Now he needs me. I'm helping him really, he was holding himself back. The spells in the forbidden sector in the library basement was much better than what he had." He then frowned and turned to the begging, caged ponies. "Do you mind? We're trying to have a conversation here. Some people am I right?" He asked as he turned back to me with a pleasant smile. I was seething. He killed and fed on the innocent and exposed another innocent to his juice and dark magic? He will need to be kept on life support when he goes through withdraw from both at once!

"I am going to free all of these ponies. Even Star, and I am going to KILL YOU!" Aylmer just let out a disappointed sigh.

"Oh fine, if that's how you're going to be." He then jumps onto Star, just barely evading my thunderbolt spell. Dark magic suddenly pulsed from Star Fall's horn and I prepare to cast a barrier spell. Just because it can't corrupt me doesn't mean it can't hurt me. But instead of shooting off a blast at me a large body of water began to boil. Suddenly a hulking form of a skeleton dragon burst from the water, moving forward with its head kept low to the ground. Once close enough Star turned and jumped onto its muzzle then into its eye socket, disappearing into its skull. It then lunged for me forcing me to dodge to the left then jump to avoid its claw swipe. I start running through large Stalagmites. "Come now I thought you were going to save everyone." Aylmer mocked from inside the dragon's head. I try to cast command undead on it but can't because Star is actively controlling it already. He's using it like a Mech? Why didn't I ever think of that! Ok think, think. What's the best move. Can't see him so I can only hit him with AOE effects. But I want to save Star so that's out. Only minions that can hold their own is Vinyl and Cluck but I have no territory close enough to drop them and I can't stop to make a portal. It's about my max size through the growth spell but I'd need to move slower to cast that and I'm barely keeping away from those claws. And any spell I can cast that will disable that monster will also hurt the trapped ponies!...Yep, I need some help. Good thing inanimate objects don't count for that territory limitation. Using my hand of evil I grab the first token I can find in my room and transport it to me, catching it in my tails.

"Excuse me but I'm in a bit of a situation can I WOH! Please help!" I just barely jump out of the way of its claws and was making to run to the left to get around it when I was suddenly zapped by the token in my tails, causing me to release it with a yelp. The token bursts open and a pulse of lightning shoots out, striking the dragon's chest causing it to jump back.

"You have got to be kidding me." I heard Aylmer say within the dragon's head.

Standing there was a human in armor. Looking around at the undead dragon, the caged ponies, then myself with a neutral expression in his eyes. "Whom would demand my presence? And why are these insufferable ponies quadrupeds?" Dr. Doom has entered the game.

I'm annoyed...I finished this chapter only for my internet connection to go out. So now I wait because I can't save or post. But don't worry I will have my net back before you see this. XD