The Beating of my Heart.
Chapter 49: Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey.
Previous Chapter Next ChapterI carefully climb out of the portal with the baby snuggled up in my tails and am confused as I see a light blue raptor with silverish white stripes running down its back.
"Trixie is a dinosaur." The raptor said to me before walking off.
"Umm... Okay?" I said to no one before shrugging it off and dropping the kid off with her siblings. I was about to walk off when I suddenly found myself in rubber boots and a rain jacket with slime all over the walls of my dungeon, foxes working overtime to clean the place up.
"What?" I ask aloud as I look around in confusion.
"We said we'll have the woopy goddess's mess cleaned up in a week or two." The fox told me. At that moment a flood of memories of something of a trip I never made yet happened anyways. I remember pranking Ava, having my DNA stolen. And BSing my way out of getting an unwanted upgrade by saying I level up and get stat points.
"I think I'm going to be sick." I groan from the info rush.
"Everyone keeps saying that." The fox said with a nod before joining the others in their work. Well I don't want to be here standing in Ava's... No, just no. So I make a portal and leave and come back out with a donkey.
"Thanks for coming back for me." The donkey said with a nod before walking off. This time the flood of memories aren't so bad.
"What is going on here!?" I shout.
"Me mee me, me, me me me." (We're reverse engineering the mirror shield like you asked us to do.) one of the Beaker puppets I made for the ghost mage researchers to inhabit replied.
"Not what I'm talking about!" I groan before I feel a hoof poking me in the side. Turning I see Starswirl examining me and he's alive. I tilt my head as he mumbles to himself.
"Jingles? You're alive?" I ask in bewilderment.
"Am I not supposed to be?" He asked me in concern.
"You're supposed to be a lich." I say matter of factually.
"Must be from the temporal flux." He said as he poked me again. I'll change back when it settles down.
"temporal? As in time?" I ask with shrinking eye flames.
"Yes, something connected to you must have altered or was altered by time. Don't worry it should work itself out... well that or we'll all be erased from time itself." He said offhandedly.
"Not making me feel any better." I say in annoyance.
"Nothing you need to worry about, just some headache I need to deal with." I say with a groan. The sisters just give each other a look before shrugging and heading out of the black castle and to the adventurers guild. With a sigh I just plop my butt down and wait for the next jump. I figure I have no choice but to lower the safety bars and ride out this roller coaster. I just sit there and whistle to myself while reflecting on the things that I did despite not doing. I actually focus on that gamer BS I fed Bronze and Ava.
"Stats!... Inventory!... It was worth a shot." I sigh sadly at not getting that awesome power. Next thing I know I'm sitting in one of my ritual rooms. Once more I have memories of wanting dark angels and the Toon World token, that overheard me, hopped out and opened up to me. Despite being a jerk to me before. I remember face-pawing so hard when I realized how a self aware Yu-Gi-Oh token would view a goddess of monsters, darkness and games. This ritual is a slightly deluded version of the toon magic. One where a soul will inhabit a toon body instead of being materials to make it. As a trade off it doesn’t have that nothing but chaos magic can hurt it cheat.
"I watch as the large crystals filled with stockpiles of life force from the life clock were sucked into a piece of paper floating over Toon World and under a Pinkamena soul I hired from a Pinkie Pie bard in the adventurers guild in my city. The paper had a drawing I made showing a chibi, anthro Pinkamena. She wore what looked like black leather armor built like a one piece swimsuit with a black skirt. The breast were covered in cartoonish skulls. As a weapon it wielded a scythe with a handle that looked like it was once a spine that ended in another obviously fake skull with the blade coming out of its mouth. Her straight hair covered one eye while the other had blood red pupils and the whites of its eyes were black. And over her head was a black halo covered in blue flames. Once the life force has been completely absorbed by the picture the soul floated into it and the picture was sucked into Toon World. After doing its toon routine of sound effects and jumping around it spits out my brand spanking new dark angel.
I look around, waiting for another jump but nothing happens. With a shrug I equip my little angel with soul cages and I'm sitting on my throne now. At least by memory this last jump wasn't by much. Maybe that means they won't last much longer?
"Next on the list is a large number of complaints regarding crime in the city." One of the ghosts working for me reads off a list.
"There is a problem with crime in my city?" I asked.
"Yes, there isn't any. The thieves in the adventurers guild are concerned that they're being left behind by the other classes that have been progressing here. No one has the guts to try anything here. Not only for the fact that there isn't a time where there isn't a group of undead passing all roads and alleys and the giant wasps flying overhead. But the idea of making trouble in a city where a goddess lives is considered an act of stupidity." The ghost replied. My attention was drawn to a feeling of death and souls for a moment and I can feel them coming closer.
"Set up plans for a new section of the city to be built. It will be a place for them to live and stealing will be legal there but if they use that place they must keep their loot their as well. That should give them some place to practice stealing and defending their loot." I say without taking my eyes off the door. The ghost didn't say anything as he saw me focusing on the door which soon opens.
I must confess I'm a little baffled by this one. Clearly a Death from somewhere. A she, not just for the slender skeletal structure a female would have, but, and I kid you not, she has a pair of literal coconuts strapped to her chest.
"Where is your afterlife?" The reaper asked in annoyance.
"What?" I ask dumbly.
"Your afterlife! For your followers!" She yelled while gesturing to the large number of souls that had followed her here. "They're dead! Where do they go!?" I'm guessing she has been looking for a while.
"Oh, well... All of my followers get another go as an undead when they kick the bucket, so I... didn't think I'd need one this soon?" I reply sheepishly. The reaper just stood there, the dots in her eye sockets shrank to pinpricks and her body shaking a little.
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This is so awkward...
"So... How did you guys die twice so fast?" The ghost asked.
"Our city was attacked by an army of orcs that have been plaguing our kingdom. After we died once we... well... played dead until the back lines on their forces where over us. Then we sprang up, killing all of their magic casters and a good number of their archers. By the time the surprise wore off and they killed us all again they were left with only front line fighters." The clear leader answered. "Well except for Jim. He died by choking on a chicken bone, then again when he was trying to sneak up behind an ogre and he got sat on." The leader gestured to one of the ghosts who was keeping his head down in shame.
"Some of us civilians did the same and killed a few ourselves. But eventually they figured out what was going on and just kept hitting anyone they kill till they made sure that no one was getting up again." A woman replied.
"You... idiot! What is it with you displaced gods and half assing it all the time!? Do you-" As the lady reaper rants on and screams profanities at me I'm thinking of a solution to this problem. I guess, seeing as one of my domains is undeath I could just tell her to leave them here. But something inside me objects to that.
The great thing about making video games with magic, when making them on a computer you need to explain everything to it in code. What is this? It's the ground. What happens when your character hits it? It stops falling. But with magic you just need to understand how it works and the physics work just fine. No chance of programing errors. And seeing how gems, for which I have an infinite supply, can hold way more than the paper the comics use, I have plenty of toys to share with my followers.
So looking through my toy box with my eye of evil I grab a board game with my hand and drop it into my paws. It's a strategy game that works with the same enchantments that go into the arcade games or the Fluffydome. A flat R.T.S. game with illusion enchantments. I turn the game on and set it to creation mode, set the map to paradise fields, then set a capitol city and activated all of the economics and public relations sections in the research tree. PR because it gives the citizens lots of luxuries and activities for the little people to increase popularity and economy to keep it all running. Thanks to the complex illusion magic woven it, they will be able to taste the food, feel the warmth of a cozy blanket. I wanted it to be as real as I could for anyone I put in the game. There are exceptions as this game was never meant to hold anyone long term. For example the library is empty.
I check everything over to make sure it's ready, the most vacation like map I've put in there, set in creation mode so no game characters are suddenly going to attack them, set them up with the best living conditions the game has to offer... Yep, I think it's ready.
"Alright my little ones come here. I have a temporary place for you to stay." I say, interrupting the reapers rant. The souls look uncertain after everything, but they realize they're mine now so they come forward and I activate the magic. The smoky portal from my games opens up and sucks in all of the souls. Once that's done the illusion magic makes its 3D projection, showing my new... pets? Best not call them that though. At least not in front of my girls.
I can see the souls looking around in awe before looking up at, what to them, must look like an impossibly huge fox. I just give them a wave before turning on the sky so they can't see me. After that some just start exploring while some have started claiming homes. I look over and see that the reaper is watching this as well before floating over and poking the board.
"Cheap but it will do. This will allow us to find it when we harvest the souls that belong to you." She death said before leaving. I just sigh and grow the board to giant size before creating a giant table next to my throne and placing my 'afterlife' on top of it and where am I now? I let out a sigh as I realize I just did a time jump again. Let's see... Oh sweet, new planet to play with! I never had a toy that big before!
Looking around I see crystal tanks with tiny creatures in it... That's right. After getting one world I started checking out other dying worlds. Daww they're so cute!... Even if they aren't moving. I actually take the time to look around at several Fluttershys that I've hired from the refugees. Each one frozen in a moment of caring for the shrunken creatures in their habitats.
"Hmmmmm... Well might as well look around." I say to myself as I walk around the ponies frozen in time. Once I'm in the next room I see shelves of what look like snow globes but are actually shrunken cities and monuments from dead worlds that I liked. Not all of them are just buildings though. I walk over to the ones placed on the red shelf and look closely at one. In the itty bitty ruins of a city, I can see itty bitty little dollified raiders that were also slavers and cannibals. Even for a fallout universe those guys were messed up... Actually I think I'll use this one as a paper weight. I try to pick the tiny city up but find that it won't budge. I groan before trying to move other things. Take someone's hat off, try pushing some paperwork onto the floor. Even tried to pick up a marker to doodle on the worker's faces.
"This is the most boring time hiccup ever!" I shout as I slump to the floor. I figure it shouldn't be too long before I make a jump again so I sit and wait it out. For some reason I can't help but think that that guy had something to do with this time headache.
Regardless, I wait... and wait... and wait. Eventually I start getting concerned that time stopping is preventing the time jumps, trapping me in these two rooms forever! Unable to escape the mighty unlocked door barring the way out. To my great relief I soon find myself in a new place, and more importantly, things are moving! Before I can cheer however I'm struck dumb at my current situation. I try to think back and figure out how I came to this point but all I'm getting is helping Pally give birth. Nothing to explain how I got here. Is time just giving me a freebee? I watch as the spinning rack moves the merchant's head out of the burning coals.
"Ready to talk?" I ask my displacer. With a groan of pain he nods his head but lets out a cry as his lower legs get a turn in the fire. "Now, why did you make me a chick!?" I demand once his feet are free. I honestly always wondered about that.
"I-I have a sex change fetish!" He screamed out.
"...What?" I deadpanned.
"You're one of many I jack off to every night!" The merchant admits with sobs. I allow the rack to dunk his head back into the coals and stopped its spinning, allowing his head to remain submerged for a while. Sometimes you look for answers to life's greatest mysteries only to get them and make you wish you never asked. Eventually, when I got tired of hearing his screams, which took a while, I let the rack get back to spinning. Once his head is above the coals again I move on to the next question.
"Alright now... What the Hell!?" I cry out in shock at suddenly finding Celestia, Luna, Cadence and Twilight having an orgy in my bed while wearing costumes. Celestia was dressed as a banana, Luna as a turtle, Cadence as a lady bug and Twilight as a book. I create a portal and dump all of them in the frozen north.
"No no no no no! I can't unsee! I can't unsee!" I cry out in anguish. "Why time!? WHY?! What did I ever do to you!?" I need something to take my mind off of this. and once time stops playing hacky sack with my head I'll cast one of those D&D spells that use XP as a cost and exchange this moment! I look around my room and find a few crates filled with skulls of hate. That's right, I found those when I was making a connection here to my new domain of the death pantheon I just took over.
"Are you okay? You look distressed." I turn to see Trixie, back to being a pony, looking at me in concern.
"If you had to suffer through the torment I've just went through... You're very mind and soul would have been shattered." I reply.
"... All Trixie asked was if you liked bananas..." Trixie said in a deadpan, earning another groan at time rubbing salt into the wound. Mind off of it! Mind off of it! Super baby! Focus on the latest memory! I gave Cadence's rugrat a dog I got from my new domain. I just sat there trembling until I went through another shift.
"Aunty?" Celestia called out to me in concern.
Don't think about it, don't think about it! Pally's tournament! I wonder how that's going?
"Time really gave you quite a few bitch slaps didn't it?" Tatonya asked.
"Wait, you know?" I asked.
"Yes, we tracked it down to some spoiled brat of unknown gender and some sissy in a green tunic and a pointy hat that just gave up on life." Krass said with a snort. Chara and Link?
"Yes, and now that it's over we can get started. Please take your seat." Death said while gesturing to a throne next to his. It showed all of my aspects in some way. Books as the back with monsters carved into the sides. The arm rests were bones, ending in a pair of skulls with blood flowing from the eye sockets like tears while the bare holding the armrest up at the ends look like a stack of dice. As I walk over to take my seat I can't help but notice something.
"There are spikes sticking out of my seat..." I say as if making a off handed observation.
"Just take your seat so we can begin." Oceanus said in a bored manner.
"... There are spikes... sticking out of my seat." I reply slowly. I just get an annoyed look at that and I sigh, summon a very thick pillow to set on the spikes before sitting down myself.
Ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp
"..." Looking under my pillow I realize that the spikes were just little woopy cushions disguised as spikes. And there is the aspect of pranks. We all were served drinks by spectral beings as the meeting went underway.
"Now for our first order of business... The investigation of Harmony arranging an invasion of Celestias against a fellow member of this pantheon." Harmony's spit-take was so widespread that it created a rainbow.
Next Chapter: The History of Hatred. Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 6 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
Because of the long hiatus I forgot to add a few things to the last Lord of the Land chapters. So it got a face lift.
Also I can't say I remember all the crossovers I've done since then so if if we've done a crossover that I haven't added a link to yet, just PM a link to me and I'll add it. And no, I don't count the ones that wern't finished. Meaning from Rin going there to Rin coming home.