Darkness... gold... darkness... gold...

"Uh... what?" Kakashi groaned as he started to come to. As he was regaining his senses he saw tiles made entirely out of gold passing by beneath him. Looking up and taking in the surrounding he realized that this was the prison where all of his comrades were being kept. He also had to admit that this has got to be the brightest and shiniest prison he has ever seen. The prison cells were all made from beautiful gems that were expertly cut. The walls, ceiling, and floor were all solid gold with intricate detail.

"Are they all in their cells yet?"

Princess Celestia?

"Not yet."

Who?... Wait, that voice was in the recordings. The fox!

Kakashi turned his attention on the ones dragging him along. They looked like those plastic army ponies toys, only with a humanoid body and they were made of gold with ruby eyes. Though they were the least of his concerns. The way they were clutching his forelegs had them bent backwards in a place where there was no joints to bend. In fact they would bob up and down bonelessly without him feeling any pain. What really drove it home was the stitching running down his legs. He had heard of the fox's ability to turn others into toys. Concentrating, he tried to call on his magic to get away from the toy soldiers but he just couldn't.

Taijutsu it is then. Having steeled his resolve the copy of the copy ninja pulled up his lower body and brought a kick to the face of the right construct.

"..."

"That won't work trust me." One of the ponies in the crystal cells called out. "They're too hard and heavy while we're too soft and light. Believe me there isn't one of us who hasn't tried."

"Well, then how about..." Kakashi said as he tried to pull his forelegs together. But it was no use. This was driving him nuts. He knew these clunky things would be foals play if he could get loose. But so long as they held onto him he couldn't get away. Soon they came to an empty cell and he was prepared to escape the moment they let him go, but instead they entered the cell with him and the door was sealed shut by another construct outside. Once they were trapped the let him drop to the ground and walked to the golden wall in the back of the cell and set themselves into holes he didn't notice before. Holes that they fit into perfectly.

"If it makes you feel any better it's for the best we wait here to be rescued." The pony in the cell next to him said sadly. "Trust me, when you realize where we are, you'll know that nothing good can come from going out there on our own."

"What is wrong with you?!" Kakashi demanded. "We have been searching everywhere for you guys! To set you all free! And you're telling me that all of these heroes, an army, who have been trained to take down major threats while working together like a well oiled machine, have no hope of taking on whoever is out there?! Yes we may be out our magic! Yes we may have been turned into soft snuggle toys! But we-"

"Okay they're all locked up." At those words Kakashi and the others were thrown against the walls as the entire prison launched up and to the sides. Once everything has settled Kakashi stood up and for the first time took note of the massive, diamond shape purple window. It almost looked like a giant gemstone. Outside he could see a massive white tower with spirals going up it and something waving near the bottom.

"The ocean?" He asked aloud before the golden prison moved again, forcing the inmates against the wall. And what was outside the window now, beyond the white tower, was Princess Celestia. The prison walls lit up in a golden magical aura as Celestia could be seen outside adjusting her golden tiara, the prison shifting along with it. That was when he realized that he was looking at Celestia's reflection as she adjusts her tiara. The were inside her tiara! But this place is huge! Comparing the size of the window compared to the size of the gem on her head where they would have to be small enough that an ant would be like a dragon to them!

"You know, I think your rallying speech made it further than any of the others before reality hit." His neighbor commented.

"I wish we didn't have to put them in there." Celestia commented.

"They're the ones that keep breaking out." I half-heartedly reply.

"You're still thinking about it, aren't you?" Celestia asked.

"Kind of heard not to." I deadpanned.

"It's not your fault. It was an accident." She tried to reassure me as she rested her hoof on my back.

"Thanks... I'm just going to go to my private lab. See if I can get my mind off of this until we get a verdict." And with that I crack open the floor with a portal and I head out.

"Is that all of the evidence?" Oceanus asked.

"It is." Summer answered.

"Finally. I honestly have no idea how you thought you'd get away with it Harmony. Your aspects aren't exactly the best for subtlety and bringing a small army of Celestias in and of itself is the kind of thing that draws a lot of attention." Oceanus drawled at Harmony as she sat on a big, circular platform that showed past events based on who was sitting on it and what questions they were asked. "Does the victim have any questions before we take Harmony down?" Harmony nearly had a aneurysm when I was referred to as a victim.

"Umm... Yes. Why do you hate me so much?" I asked.

"Don't, you, DARE, pretend like you don't know!" Harmony shouted with pure loathing in her eyes. Regardless of her response the platform started glowing, creating a large window in the middle of the round table. All went quiet as I finally get an answer to why she is so...

"Oh come on!"

"Oh my."

"Aroooo!."

"You hate Rin... because of porn?"

"No! That's not... what it is is... this isn't!" Harmony tried to correct the natural assumption that was made from the image of Harmony and some earth pony on the screen.

"How is he even bending that way? Are you using your divine powers on him?" Tatonya asked while wiggling her nonexistent eyebrows.

"Don't judge me! I needed some stress relief okay!? Like any of you haven't done it! At least I give mine proper compensation instead of just snatching them up and tossing them aside when I'm done!" Harmony shouted with a blush so strong you'd think she had dipped her face in red paint.

None of us spoke after that as we watched the screen change to Harmony with a baby earth pony with her rainbow hair playing peekaboo. So far nothing groundbreaking. It's not uncommon for demigods to pop up every hundred years or so from all of the other gods. The only exception would be Tatonya because she's so big and strong she would crush anyone she would try it with into paste, literally. What was strange was that I had no idea who this guy was. Some demigods become great leaders. some become heroes of legend. And in one case one became a horrible villain. Poor death, he has one kid and he gets Grogar. But no matter what they have always made a big mark on history. Except this guy. I look around and can tell from some of the other gods faces that they're trying to place his face as well.

As we watched there was one constant. The baby turned into a toddler, which turned into a kid, which turned into a teen and finally into an adult.

"Do you have your lunch box?" The image of Harmony asked her son.

"Yes mother."

"Do you have that ointment for your you know what?"

"Yes mother."

"Do You have your enchanted armor and weapon properly polished? You don't want the other warriors making fun of you."

"Sparkly rainbow armor is extra sparkly."

"Perfect! If that doesn't get you a marefriend I don't know what will."

"MOM!"

"Now, now dear. You know I'm only looking out for you. Now go on, you shouldn't be late for your first battle. Make lots of friends and slay lots of enemies!" Harmony said cheerfully before giving the guy a kiss on the cheek.

The next image takes us to a raging battlefield. It was during the war with the minotaurs. It was showing a battle in one of their fortress cities. The earth pony was charging through the streets slaying one armored knight after another on his way to glory.

"seventy-five, seventy-six, Seventy-sssshit!" The demigod cried out with wide eyes as he screeched to a halt. What he saw before him was horrifying. The sheer brutality, the gore, one of the minotaurs was even still alive. The upper half of his body and his lower half separated by the room's length, yet still connected by his intestines. His face the very image of agony.

"What the buck could have done this!?" He asked aloud before hearing screams of terror close by. Taking a moment to put the minotaur out of his misery he charged forward down the street just in time to see Horny crushing the skull of the last minotaur under his flaming hoof.

"You, how could you!? To kill your own kind, and with such cruelty as well!" The demigod gave horny pause after drawing the horned reaper's attention. Not because of his words, but because of how girly his armor was. "Treachery is the worst sin of them all! And look at you. I can feel the evil rolling off of you! I've never even heard on anyone ...Hey! Don't walk away when I'm condemning you!" The demigod cried out while running forward and getting into Horny's path getting a look of annoyance from the demon.

"I don't have time for your criticism. You have your orders from the army, and I have mine from my keeper." The horned reaper stated before pushing through the demigod.

"I'm not from any army." stated the demigod in annoyance causing Horny to pause mid step.

"Oh, no no no. Don't say that." I say as I realize what must have happened. I remember the standard orders I gave Horny in city battles back then. Don't harm any civilians, only attack soldiers, don't attack any troops from allied armies.

Slowly the horned reaper turned around, a sickening grin on his face as he readied his weapon for the blood bath.

"As you sit rotting in the underworld I want you to remember the name of the one who stopped your wicked rampage monster. Forever remember the name of Hoof Note!" The demigod shouted as he jumped forward and stabbed forward with his sword to impale the demon.

'Tink'

"...um" Hoof Note said as he looked at his blade which stopped dead against the abs of the demon. "Ak!" He cried out as one of Horny's hands grabbed him by the neck and lifted him up off the ground.

"...well, that was..."

"I think I'm going to be sick."

"Wow."

"Well I think we have everything we need to debate on our votes... as soon as Twilight and Cadence come to."

The vote went against Harmony on the grounds that to attack a demigod was one thing but to attack a god was another. And the few that thought differently about that mindset felt that my time in stone was enough punishment. Though try telling that to a mother who’s kid was butchered in such a horrible way. Now all that's left is for the three unbiased and anonymous judges to decide on her punishment.

"How are the projects I've set coming?" I asked one of my imps as I enter my lab.

"Two of the projects you had us look after have have met the requirements you've placed for them to be considered a success." The fox imp replied as she gestured to one of the other foxes who ran up to me with a shiny gold necklace and a hand mirror. "The imps that you shrunk down to the size of dust mites have finished carving the runes you've specified for the Chain of Emoji."

Taking the necklace I locked it around my neck before bending down to look into the mirror that my imp was holding up. What I saw was myself, before I became a goddess. I know it's just an illusion but I've missed having a face so much. Giving it a test run I smile and the face in the mirror smiles back. I frown, deadpan, pout and made every funny face I could think of just to see if it will show the image I'm aiming for. And just as I've hoped, the face in the mirror showed it all flawlessly without the need to wave something over my face first. Even as I spoke the mouth moved flawlessly. Now there were just two things left to check. I made the puppy pout and nearly tried to give my own reflection a hug. The perfect illusion control has notched up the puppy pout by five! And now the last thing.

"Ppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp!" The tongue was extended to just the right length and the way it vibrated up and down like in a cartoon made it just as adorable as it is insulting. This has officially become my greatest weapon against diplomats, nobles and people I want to do something for me for free. definitely worth the hours waiting for the supercomputer I got from Bronze to crunch the numbers needed for the rune formation.

"And what was the other project?" I asked the fox.

"Project Tummy Rub Slave." The fox imp said as she called in another fox who was leading a woman in plain white pajamas into the room on a leash. I give her a few experimental pokes. "The subjects have lasted the entire month without any sign of deterioration. As you've theorized it is possible to make the slaves created with the summon harem spell permanent by tattooing the dark runes for mana absorption into the walls of its stomach and feeding it conjured water for the runes to suck dry and feed the mana into the constructs."

"About time I had a use for those slave chains that come attached to my room." I say as I bring in some gems and create a giant hamster water bottle held up by steel stands. "Fill this up with conjured water and place it next to the chains in my room and lock up my new royal tummy rubbers in those chains." I order and the female construct and water bottle were taken away.

With a sigh I use my hand to bring in a skeleton and placed it on one of my examination tables. Now that I have the time I should look into the changes my undead went through because of the undeath aspect. Like why they protected themselves from the light by draining my mana.

Let's see... strange, normally negative energy leeks out of an undead in tiny amounts like a never ending fart. It's the reason that they aren't used in things like farm work. They'd contaminate the produce and kill the animals. I've been dealing with the problem by having imps run around anyplace I take the undead with gems enchanted to suck up the stuff after I've left. And it's not an issue in the dungeon as the walls do that here. However instead of coming off as a gas, it looks like it has mixed with darkness into some kind of elastic energy. Like muscle. I think as I use my hand to drop a hammer into my paws. I want to test if this new energy animating my undead makes them any more durable And so I let loose with a swing.

'POP'

"...Umm..." What else can I say when my undead minion vanishes with a pop just before I could hit it? Concentrating on the link to my minions to see if one is standing out from the ones here and the ones from my Scourge factory where I got the vanishing skeleton from in the first place. And I'm surprised to find a few links in random worlds. So I follow one and find a flesh golem laid out on a table being studied by mages. moving back I follow another one to find a skeleton standing in what looks like a gaudy white training ground in front of men in armor as an older one giving them a lecture while fake swinging his sword at the undead to demonstrate.

"So my undead can be summoned now? That could causes problems if they take ones that I actually have doing things." I say to myself as I back out and follow another link. This time I find my missing test subject. I can tell because it took the paper sheet it was sitting on with it. I saw that it was standing with several young boys in armor with glowing animals next to them as well as an old man in white robes with a golden staff. It looks like all of the other children are poking fun at the one next to my skeleton.

"Stop that children! This now way for paladins to behave!" The old man in fancy robes chastised.

"But look at what he summoned! What kind of paladin summons an undead? And it's a petty skeleton at that!" One of the boys complained.

"It comes from a plane ruled by my goddess. There is no way it's as weak as a normal skeleton." The boy that summoned my minion shouted back. I have a paladin?

"That scrawny thing? My mighty summons could crush your low level one with ease." The bully dismissed condescendingly.

"It's a level one divine summons, same as mine!" My guy deadpanned. This got a scowl from the bully.

"We'll see, celestial dog, chew that thing up and bury its bones!" At the bully's command the shiny dog had charged over and leaped at my skeleton ready to bite into it.

'Shling'

Everyone there looked wide eyed at the two halves of the dog that was turning into light particles and floating away. I never thought I'd see the day where one of my skeletons would have the chance to be a badass. Thanks to the dark rituals all of the undead from my factory go through as they move down the assembly line, as well as the runes carved into it and the training room my skeleton's stats are looking good. Sure it would lose to an adequately trained soldier if they're fast enough to keep up and the dog did have the type advantage. But the dog charged in like any normal attack dog and the skeleton had the extra reach of a sword. Type advantage is worthless of you get killed before you can make even one attack. Wasn't clean either. The gear those skeletons have were mass produced by imps, which despite their skills in construction can't make properly shaped armor or weapons. This makes their weapons more terrifying as the skeleton's sword was jagged with uneven teeth for shredding rather than cutting.

"Now that your pointless sword measuring contest is over it's time to start your first extermination job. You need experience and those goblins need to be eradicated." The old man sighed. "Why did those paladins dump their trainees on me."

My attention, much to my annoyance, was drawn away from watching my little paladin in training by a knock on my door. With a sigh I walk over to see the twin dark knights Swift and Unyielding Blade carrying a coffin and Death was behind them... quivering?

"Our grandfather died." Swift said bluntly.

"I ain't dead!"

"Also, glad to see that you took care of the mask thing." Swift continued.

"Be more respectful to your princess!"

"Anyways we brought his corpse-" Swift began to say.

"I said I ain't dead!"

"Yes you are grandfather." Unyielding called back. "You had a heart attack."

"It was just some indigestion!"

"He always was a stubborn old-" At that moment Swift looked around both in my lab and down the corridors outside. "mule."

"Aha!" with super pony reflexes Swift Blade unsheathed her sword and swung it flat side forward and it made contact with a mighty slap and a crunch. Once she moved her weapon away she saw a donkey hanging from the ceiling by a rope tied around his hind legs, wearing a Spider-Mare costume minus the mask, swinging from side to side with anime swirls for eyes.

"Apologies my lady." Swift said with a bow.

"No worries. He asked for that one." I say with a dismissive wave. Is the other end of that rope being held to the sealing by duck tape?

"Anyways Death brought our grandfather's soul-" Swift began.

"I told you I ain't dead!"

"Please take him." Death said pleadingly.

"...Okay one, since when do you beg for anything and two... why do you sound like a chipmunk on helium?" I ask.

"When I was trying to reap him-" Death began.

"Try and touch me again and you'll get another kick in the balls!"

"Grandfather has a slight hearing problem. He can hear well enough most of the time. But sometimes he will confuse one word for another. Apparently he didn't hear the word reap." Swift added.

"Okay, mental image of the grim reaper jumping an old guy's bone aside, if you're a skeleton, how can he-"

"I don't know." Death said before I could finish.

"Sigh, fine. Maybe I'll make him a death knight. Oh! Death, if you're here does that mean that Harmony's fate has been decided?" I ask.

"Yes, it was decided that she would be temporarily stripped of her aspect and serve out her sentence as a high school janitor. For however long it takes her to let go of her anger." He replied.

"I see... thank you for telling me." I say getting a nod from Death before the trembling reaper vanished. After that I leave the lab and lock the door and turned to the ghost. "You, you're dead. Get over it! If you want to keep serving I can make you undead. If not I'll kick your sorry plot into the afterlife myself! Is that clear?!"

"Ma’am yes ma’am! I chose to keep serving ma’am!" The ghost replied with a salute.

"Alright, you girls take his corpse to my workshop and give him the tour. After everything that has happened today I need a nap." I order before portaling away.

"How long do you think Harmony would be kept off our backs by this?" Swift asked.

"Who knows. But I'm sure no harm would come from her domain being gone for a while." Her sister replied.

I yawn as I put my shiny new necklace in a small chest in my drawer before snuggling into my blanket. Resting my head on my fluffy pillow and-

"AHHHHH!" A scream sounded as something landed in my bed, launching me upwards where I shot off a dollification spell by reflex before landing on my bed once more.

'Squeak!'

I tilt my head as I felt something, or someone, squirming under me.

I think I just sat in something.