The Alpha
Chapter 23: Chapter 14:Your Neighborhood Void Dweller (Unedited)
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This is a crossover with The Tale of Loki 2: Into the void and The Unlikely Trinity.
"Wher-"
Within Canterlot throne room a rip in space-time opened and then collapsed into a vortex walking out was a being covered from head to toe in a massive cloak. In his right hands was an energy sword, in his left was the phone token. “Did I really just hit send on a phone I found in the void?” He removed his hood right as everyone teleported in.
“Discord good you're already here.” Twilight said at the newcomer.
Lucas ran right in front of ‘Discord’ and bowed immediately before getting up and pointing at him with exaggerated motions. His voice was caught in his throat as he tried to say something.
“Are you alright?” Yubel asked.
“L-L-LOKI!!!!” Lucas screamed.
“What?” Yubel asked.
‘Discord’ gave a cough. “Hello I am Loki, I’m your friendly neighborhood god of balance.”
Lucas looked at Yubel and everyone else and put on a ‘I fucking told you so’ look before saying, “I FUCKING TOLD YOU SO! Who is crazy now?!” He screamed.
Loki gave a laugh. “Oh hi nice to see your alive and well… and with two other displaced? Boy I did not see that coming.”
“Wait a minute… Why do you have an energy sword in your hand?” Lucas asked in confusion as he saw the deactivated Halo energy sword.
“Oh this was a token I found in the void I kinda collect tokens.” Loki answered, “Wait do any of you three have any questions? I kinda didn’t give you all some heads up like some others.”
“Yeah. Who drugged me?” Styx asked as he still did not believe that Loki was real.
“Nobody. You are just in denial. Hey can I see that energy sword for a second?” Lucas asked as he really wanted to see if it was as real as it looked.
Loki handed it to him and Yubel had to ask, “Ok Lucas might be right about you but I know that my memories are not faked… are they?” She asked.
“No actually I found you in a alternate yugioh dimension… I found it weird my books were even there… probably time travel.” Loki answered.
Lucas pressed a button on the energy sword and it activated, but not before a voice was heard, "
It's a sword not a fighter jet! No but in all seriousness, if you ever need someone to hack into technology or just talk or fight, summon me, Epsilon-Church." Lucas gave a few test swish and stabs, “Do I do it?” Lucas asked everyone.
In a flash appearing next to Loki was his voices of Chaos and order, or Astral Discord and Astral Twilight. “Do it!” Astral Discord said.
“Where did they come from?” Yubel asked.
“Don’t ask.” Loki answered.
“Doing it!” Lucas said as he whispered to the sword. A portal opened up and a legitimate warthog drove out of it with a blue Spartan driving and a filly version of Cadence in the passenger seat.
“Man this Celestia has a huge throne room,” Astral Discord commented.
The blue spartan immediately did a power park and stopped the warthog, “You have got to be kidding me,” He said as filly Cadence looked confused, “Wait a minute… Why are there four of you?” Church asked in confusion as he stared at Loki, Yubel, Styx and Lucas.
“Oh because I sent these three off and they somehow ended up together.” Loki answered about Yubel, Styx and Lucas. “Me? That’s another story.”
Church immediately jumped out of the warthog and got into a defensive stance as a binary rifle formed in his hands, “You better not be who I think you are…” He analyzed Loki for a few seconds before lowering the rifle, “You aren’t…”
“Wait, why the hell and how the hell do you have that?” Lucas asked suspiciously as he pointed at the binary rifle.
“They just spawn. I take,” Church said simply.
“Let me guess, the merchant? He is an asshole even among the void Dwellers and gods.” Loki said with his arms crossed.
“Yes. He made me into this! I am literally memory. Every being I meet I make a personality of… And I am just a fragment of someone. And what I want to know is why the hell I don’t know about you if you can do what this Merchant can?”
“I am Loki, I recently became a void Dweller… well recently when compare to these ancient beings, as for how my teacher was a Displacer those who make Displaced, in fact I wasn’t displaced by the merchant one of the more… humane Displacers sent me.” Loki said, “At least that’s what I had gathered.”
Hoofsteps were heard and everyone turned to see filly Cadence walking towards Cadence and stop a few feet in front of her curiously with her head tilted, “...Me?” She said in confusion.
“Wha what?” Cadance was confused.
“Sorry multiverse she is you from another dimension… wait who is your parents?” Loki asked Cadance.
“Celestia my mother.” Loki stopped her there.
“Ok highly divergent universe.”
Church walked up to Loki and whispered into his ear about how he had a war against this particular Cadence but didn’t want to kill her and she had lost everything so he turned her into a filly and made her forget everything so she could have a ‘second chance at life’ and she became attached to him.
“How did that even happen?” He asked Church.
“It’s… complicated. Basically Kharn the Betrayer, Ahriman the Exiled, Zhufor the Impaler and everything Warhammer against Equestria…” Church said hesitantly.
Loki face taloned at this. “I told those idiots… look give me a few minutes in your dimension I’ll remove the warp from it’s timestream.”
“Please no. I love using the warp,” Church said with a nervous chuckle.
Loki looked him over, “Fine but I’ll alter it to remove the psionic monsters, I wouldn’t be the god of balance if I didn’t help universes.”
Church cringed at that, “I hate psionics.”
“What are psionics?” Pinkie Pie asked, finally talking, as she was really quiet earlier.
Loki waved his hand. “Depends which type?” Pinkie Pie stared at Loki blankly. Loki then realized. “Give me a moment.”
Loki eyes glow. “Good the warp hasn’t formed here… I tell you I came across a displaced who keep dragging any alteration to every universe… had to kill him as he kinda destroyed seven universes.”
Yubel rose her hand. “Can you both have the conversation somewhere else?” She asked.
“No,” Lucas said, “This is actually amusing for me because I actually get to hear something interesting while most of you don’t understand a damned thing that is going on.”
“Really? Because I thought we were in the middle of a war.” Yubel said calmly.
“With what?” Lucas asked in confusion.
“With the Umbra!” Yubel screamed at him.
“War?” Church asked before he smashed a boot on the ground, opening a portal and ran straight at the warthog before picking it up and throwing it into the portal and watching it close while the Elements stared in shock.
“Did… Did you just throw a…3 ton troop transport into a random portal?” Lucas asked incredulously.
Church waved a hand dismissively as if it were nothing, “What is this about war?”
“Don’t worry I’m sure they can handle it after all they are displaced.” Loki said with a smile.
Church walked up to Loki and looked at him questioningly, “Eh, I don’t think antimatter and antimagic weaponry would be that effective anyway… with how ridiculous it costs.”
“Do you have vast reality warping and precondition?” Loki ansked.
“No. My ship does. Seriously… How do you fit over 20,000 rooms in such a small place and then have a freaking exact copy of the hologram room from Red Vs Blue in that thing?”
Loki rolled his eyes. “Ever seen two teams of displaced fight in a pointless war because your teacher is sadist?”
“Hmm, that sounds like it would be fun to be a chessmaster in,” Church said.
“Why would you… Oh. Heh, it does,” Styx laughed.
Loki turned to Church. “Look before either of us go I need to give you something. and no it’s not my token all my tokens have broke after my ascension.” Loki held up has talons with a ball of pure energy soon became a poker chip with yin yang on each side.
“This will allow me to locate your universe… also bring the idiots so I can berate them, I’ll fix up the problem the warp has for you.”
“Uh… yeah about that… They may have… done literally almost everything you can do with the warp… including ascend one of the ponies into a Daemon Prince…” Church said nervously.
“Yeah I know, they were apart of said teachers conflict.” Loki deadpanned.
“I would fight in the war but I’d prefer not to become a chess piece,” Church said.
Celestia glanced at the two and shook her head, muttering, “Can’t win them all…”
“Yes but you can cheat,” Loki said laughing at his own joke.
“Are you kidding me? I always cheat! I can’t not do that! I have over a hundred personalities stuck in my head! If I had an actual head! Good thing most of them are minor personalities though… Otherwise that would be… eurgh.”
Chrysalis waited until now to speak, “So are we just letting them talk.”
“BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD!” Lucas screamed as he rushed in a random direction.
Loki knocked him out with his telepathy, “Don’t pretend about that… actually,” Loki hit him was a blast of order magic to be save.
“He deserved it,” Yubel answered.
“I am sensing large amounts of… something coming here,” Delta said from Church.
Chrysalis and Cadance knew what it was. “The Umbra’s Crystals.” They both said.
Loki took that as his and Church’s cue, “Come on we should continue this in your story and let them deal with there’s.”
“Oh great. Another fourth wall breaker,” Church laughed.
Loki summoned up a vortex and the two disappeared along with filly Cadence, leaving everyone else.
The vortex closed and dropped the trio at a burning building where gunshots were heard and alarms blaring. Loki pulled of reading glasses he had somehow gotten in the transite. “I’m afraid to ask what’s going on.” His tone was casual.
“Probably just another member of some nation or kingdom's royalty trying to steal the vast land and resources again… And yep,” There were Minotaurs holding guns and shooting at Lopez robots.
Loki gave a sigh. ‘Well then.” Loki talons glow as the ground below the Minotaurs rose into the air. “Surrender or I will toss you all into the nearest black hole.” Loki’s voice could be heard in their minds.
“Why do you always have to be so violent?” Cadence asked Church sadly.
“I don't have an answer to that…” He replied.
“Don’t worry if they are rational they would surrender, even so I’m not going to kill them I’ll just knock them out.” Loki said.
The presumed leader of the minotaur group started speaking in Russian, “What is a black hole? You can't make us surrender if it is something as weak sounding as that!”
Loki sigh teleported up to them with a black ball. “This is a black hole.” In a flash a whole planet appeared above them. “That is a planet five times this ones density.” Loki tossed the black hole up wards. Said planet was sucked right in as Loki caught it. “Basically it crushes you to the point you're as small as a atom and nothing short of a literal god could survive.”
A squishy sound was heard. Church and Cadence as well as Loki slowly looked down and saw that the minotaurs had… eww… why is that a thing?! “You kinda.” Loki pointed it out.
“Fecal matter just hit the oscillating rotary device,” Church said with a smirk.
“I take it you surrender?” Loki asked.
The minotaurs all dropped their weapons and kicked them towards Loki. They were simple unsc magnums and smgs as well as battle rifles. Loki teleported the weapons away. “Good now Church hold this.” Loki put a magic barrier over the black hole as he tossed it to church. Loki went into a meditative position his eyes glowing.
A teleportation occured and a very angry looking Celestia appeared in front of Church, completely missing Loki and instead staring at Church, the minotaurs and filly Cadence, “Explain. NOW,” She commanded as she looked at the filly.
Church sighed and whispered into her ear everything that happened that caused the filly to end up like this.
Celestia’s expression changed from disgust, to horror, to pity, to understanding, to her regular stern expression, “Considering everything… I will allow this. BUT, you must get parenting lessons or find her a stepmother,” Church fell on his ass at that.
Loki started to glow a bit which finally caught Celestia’s attention. Loki started to phase a bit into the air itself and became transparent. “What? Who is that?” Celestia asked.
Finally Loki’s eyes stopped glowing as he returned. “Ok fixed… the warp now not ever going to be that dimensional hellscape… also I had to interweave some of your alternative time lines so if you see someone who was dead… well they aren’t dead no more.” Loki turned to Celestia. “Hey I’m Loki.”
Celestia looked like she wanted to faint from shock but she shoved that urge down, “Hello… Loki. I assume you already know who I am…” She said hesitantly.
“Well other than altering the universe I have meet dozens of you… some great, some good, and a few bad, but that’s to be expended in the multiverse when you're a traveler.”
Celestia winced at ‘bad' and her right eye started twitching, “Bad?”
“Not really Evil, a few are, but most are failures as rulers, or who took a gamble to big.” Loki answered.
Cadence finally got annoyed with being ignored and tapped Church rapidly and incessantly, “Yes, my little filly?” He asked, which made Celestia give a knowing smirk.
“I'm hungry…” She complained with puppy dog eyes.
“Here let me.” Loki summoned up a batch of cupcakes for her. “Nyx use to love these.” Loki said remembering something.
Cadence tentatively picked up a cupcake in her magic and took a bite before wolfing down the rest of the cupcakes gleefully, “Thesh arh gooh!” She exclaimed.
Loki handed Church a piece of paper. “Here the recipe for them.”
Church ‘scanned' the paper. No seriously, it literally looked like he scanned it like a printer with a blue light coming out of his visor.
“Neat.” Loki commented. “I have one question, I can send you back to Earth to get some closure if you want?”
“Uh… this is awkward… I didn't actually have any friends or family. I… was alone. I guess now it just means I have a longer life to make more decisions. Plus… I may have already went back… It is uh… Let's just say that continental drift happened.”
“Oh yeah I keep forgetting most Displaced don’t have time travel abilities… well if anything I bet your live to be around a million years giving what you're made of or more if you keep advancing.”
“I have the ability to do time travel. I choose not to use it. Remember those crude time machines from Doctor Who that fucked up the timeline? Yeah I don't really want to bother with that possibility… And that is good to know…” Church said in resignation.
“Perhaps I’ll even see you in the void if you can hack your way into your universe.” Loki said with a laugh.
“Uh… I tend to stay away from the void. Being pranked with a 90 mile starship isn't what I call funny.”
“Strange how you and the ship weren't well destroyed in the void… whoever played it on you must have been a strong dweller.”
“They seemed to know my desires because when I tried to take the ship I was unable to access the bridge network since it was in an indecipherable language.”
“Well don’t Dwell on it, probably the merchant, or someone's else I won’t name.” Loki formed a rift to the void.
“Well I got to get going there is a infinite amount of realities hundreds that need help and only one me it seems willing to help out.” Before he leaved to turned to Church. “Also keep that poker chip, just incase come reality shattering event happens you can use it to bring me here to fix it.” With that Loki waved good-bye.
“Bye Loki…”
Loki passed into the void causing the land to generally retouch with no trouble.
Celestia faced Church sternly, "Now about that parenting."
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